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Nonmonotonic Reasoning

 

Common sense reasoning is also imprecise in that it draws conclusions that might not be made if there were more information. Thus common sense reasoning is nonmonotonic. I will not go into the details of any of the proposals for handling nonmonotonic reasoning.

In particular, getting from the common sense informatic situation to a bounded informatic situation needs nonmonotonic reasoning.



John McCarthy
Sun Apr 19 15:21:34 PDT 1998