Maximum Entropy Inference with Quantified Knowledge

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Logic Journal of the IGPL 16 (1):85-98 (2008)
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We investigate uncertain reasoning with quantified sentences of the predicate calculus treated as the limiting case of maximum entropy inference applied to finite domains

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