nonmonotonic reasoning

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  • Aristotle
    In applied logic: Nonmonotonic reasoning

    It is possible to treat ampliative reasoning as a process of deductive inference rather than as a process of question and answer. However, such deductive approaches must differ from ordinary deductive reasoning in one important respect. Ordinary deductive reasoning is “monotonic” in the…

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