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_aBC183 _b.L48 1996 |
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_aLevi, Isaac, _d1930- _eauthor. |
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_aFor the sake of the argument : _bRamsey Test conditionals, inductive inference, and nonmonotonic reasoning / _cIsaac Levi. |
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_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1996. |
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_a1 online resource (xv, 341 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s). |
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_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia |
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_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
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| 500 | _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). | ||
| 505 | 0 | _a1. Introduction -- 2. Unextended Ramsey Tests -- 3. Modality without Modal Ontology -- 4. Aspects of Conditional Logic -- 5. Nonmonotonicity in Belief Change and Suppositional Reasoning -- 6. Inductive Expansion -- 7. Defaults -- 8. Matters of Degree -- 9. Normality and Expectation -- 10. Agents and Automata. | |
| 520 | _aThis book by one of the world's foremost philosophers in the fields of epistemology and logic offers an account of suppositional reasoning relevant to practical deliberation, explanation, prediction and hypothesis testing. Suppositions made 'for the sake of argument' sometimes conflict with our beliefs, and when they do, some beliefs are rejected and others retained. Thanks to such belief contravention, adding content to a supposition can undermine conclusions reached without it. Subversion can also arise because suppositional reasoning is ampliative. These two types of nonmonotonic logic are the focus of this book. A detailed comparison of nonmonotonicity appropriate to both belief contravening and ampliative suppositional reasoning reveals important differences that have been overlooked. | ||
| 650 | 0 | _aHypothesis. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aCommonsense reasoning. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aConditionals (Logic) | |
| 650 | 0 | _aInduction (Logic) | |
| 650 | 0 | _aInference. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aNonmonotonic reasoning. | |
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_iPrint version: _z9780521497138 |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511720161 |
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