Logic as general rationality: a survey
Logic and probability, which happen to share historical origins, are asked nowadays to solve new problems such as reasoning under uncertainty, or with incomplete information or imprecisely formulated statements. The paper surveys how both fields have striven to solve them and how a common formalism,...
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| Tipo de recurso: | informe técnico |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1996 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/82830 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/82830 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Sentential logic Probability Boolean algebra Logical semantics Probability logic Many-valued logics Supervaluations Uncertainty Rational belief Probabilistic semantics Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Informàtica teòrica |
| Sumario: | Logic and probability, which happen to share historical origins, are asked nowadays to solve new problems such as reasoning under uncertainty, or with incomplete information or imprecisely formulated statements. The paper surveys how both fields have striven to solve them and how a common formalism, already suggested by Kolmogorov and Popper, may be what both disciplines lack to become a general theory of rationality. |
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