Nonmonotonic Inferences with Qualitative Conditionals based on Preferred Structures on Worlds

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12713v1
• Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 13:32:00 GMT
• Title: Nonmonotonic Inferences with Qualitative Conditionals based on Preferred Structures on Worlds
• Authors: Christian Komo and Christoph Beierle
• Abstract summary: We introduce the preferred structure relation on worlds using conditionals in R. We show that system W exhibits desirable inference properties like satisfying system P and avoiding. In contrast to skeptical c-inference, it does not require to solve a complex constraint satisfaction problem, but is as tractable as system Z.
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• Abstract: A conditional knowledge base R is a set of conditionals of the form "If A, the usually B". Using structural information derived from the conditionals in R, we introduce the preferred structure relation on worlds. The preferred structure relation is the core ingredient of a new inference relation called system W inference that inductively completes the knowledge given explicitly in R. We show that system W exhibits desirable inference properties like satisfying system P and avoiding, in contrast to e.g. system Z, the drowning problem. It fully captures and strictly extends both system Z and skeptical c-inference. In contrast to skeptical c-inference, it does not require to solve a complex constraint satisfaction problem, but is as tractable as system Z.

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