On the emergence of reasons in inductive logic

Logic Journal of the IGPL 9 (2):207-216 (2001)
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Abstract

We apply methods of abduction derived from propositional probabilistic reasoning to predicate probabilistic reasoning, in particular inductive logic, by treating finite predicate knowledge bases as potentially infinite propositional knowledge bases. It is shown that for a range of predicate knowledge bases and several key propositional inference processes this procedure is well defined, and furthermore yields an explanation for the validity of the induction in terms of 'reasons'

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Jeffrey Paris
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