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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Sales Porta, Ton
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
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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.