Skepticism and floating conclusions

DOI10.1016/S0004-3702(01)00160-6zbMath0984.68144OpenAlexW2102451699MaRDI QIDQ5958539

John F. Horty

Publication date: 3 March 2002

Published in: Artificial Intelligence (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0004-3702(01)00160-6

zbMATH Keywords

nonmonotonic logicdefault logicskeptical reasoning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Logic in artificial intelligence (68T27) General topics in artificial intelligence (68T01) Other applications of logic (03B80)

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