Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Wilhelm Rödder, Friedhelm Kulmann
Conditionals are fascinating and versatile objects of knowledge representation. On the one hand, they may express rules in a very general sense, representing, for example, plausible relationships, physical laws, and social norms. On the other hand, as default rules or general implications, they constitute a basic tool for reasoning, even in the presence of uncertainty. In this sense, conditionals are intimately connected both to information and inference. Due to their non-Boolean nature, however, conditionals are not easily dealt with. They are not simply true or false -- rather, a...
Conditionals are fascinating and versatile objects of knowledge representation. On the one hand, they may express rules in a very general sense, repre...