Count-As Conditionals, Classification and Context

Abstract. Searle represents constitutive norms as count-as conditionals, written as `X counts as Y in context C'. Grossi et al. study a class of these conditionals as `in context C, X is classified as Y '. In this paper we propose a generalization of this relation among count-as conditionals, classification and context, by defining a class of count-as conditionals as `X in context C0 is classified as Y in context C'. We show that if context C0 can be different from context C, then we can represent a larger class of examples, and we have a weaker logic of count-as conditionals. 1 Count-as conditionals, classification and context Searle [7] argues that there is a distinction between two types of rules. "Some rules regulate antecedently existing forms of behaviour. For example, the rules of polite table behaviour regulate eating, but eating exists independently of these rules. Some rules, on the other hand, do not merely regulate an antecedently existing activity calle...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ECAI
• Authors: Guido Boella, Leendert W. N. van der Torre
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Context C, Context C0, Count-as Conditionals, ECAI 2006