Inferences about speech acts are often conditional, nonmonotonic, and involve the issue of time. Most agent communication languages, however, ignore these issues, due to the difï¬...
This paper explores the role of some basic notions in the study of non-monotonic reasoning, such as validity, logical consequence, context, rules and assumptions.1 It offers some ...
Logic is a celebrated representation language because of its formal generality. But there are two senses in which a logic may be considered general, one that concerns a technical a...
If one has attributed certain initial beliefs to an agent, it is sometimes possible to reason about further beliefs the agent must hold by observing what conclusions one's ow...
: It is claimed that human inferential apparatus offers interesting ground in order to consider the intuitions of artificial intelligence researchers about the inference patterns a...