For the sake of the argument : Ramsey Test conditionals, inductive inference, and nonmonotonic reasoning / Isaac Levi.
This book by one of the world's foremost philosophers in the fields of epistemology and logic offers an account of suppositional reasoning relevant to practical deliberation, explanation, prediction and hypothesis testing. Suppositions made 'for the sake of argument' sometimes conflic...
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Cambridge ; New York, N.Y. :
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1996.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Unextended Ramsey Tests
- 3. Modality without Modal Ontology
- 4. Aspects of Conditional Logic
- 5. Nonmonotonicity in Belief Change and Suppositional Reasoning
- 6. Inductive Expansion
- 7. Defaults
- 8. Matters of Degree
- 9. Normality and Expectation
- 10. Agents and Automata.