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“Nonmonotonic” does not mean “probabilistic”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Keith Stenning  and
Michiel van Lambalgen
Keith Stenning
Affiliation:
Human Communication Research Center, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, United Kingdomkeith@inf.ed.ac.ukwww.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Keith_Stenning
Michiel van Lambalgen
Affiliation:
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1012CP, The Netherlands. M.vanLambalgen@uva.nlhttp://staff.science.uva.nl/~michiell
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Abstract

Oaksford & Chater (O&C) advocate Bayesian probability as a way to deal formally with the pervasive nonmonotonicity of common sense reasoning. We show that some forms of nonmonotonicity cannot be treated by Bayesian methods.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , February 2009 , pp. 102 - 103
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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