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Circumscription within monotonic inferences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

E. G. K. López-Escobar
E. G. K. López-Escobar*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department/Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
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Abstract

A conservative extension of first order logic, suitable for circumscriptive inference, is introduced.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , September 1988 , pp. 888 - 904
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1988

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