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Table of contents :
Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Defeasible Logic and The Frame Problem....Pages 3-21
Monotonic Solution of The Frame Problem in The Situation Calculus....Pages 23-67
A Framework for Reasoning with Defaults....Pages 69-87
The Frame Problem and Relevant Predication....Pages 89-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Thing and Thought....Pages 99-117
Bare Plurals as Plural Indefinite Noun Phrases....Pages 119-166
Seeing To it That: A Canonical Form for Agentives....Pages 167-190
Speaker Plans, Linguistic Contexts, and Indirect Speech Acts....Pages 191-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Belief Revision, Non-Monotonic Reasoning, and the Ramsey Test....Pages 223-244
Jeffrey’s Rule, Passage of Experience, and Neo -Bayesianism....Pages 245-265
Two Perspectives on Consensus for (Bayesian) Inference and Decisions....Pages 267-286
Conditionals and Conditional Probabilities: Three Triviality Theorems....Pages 287-306
Front Matter....Pages 307-307
Inheritance Theory and Path-Based Reasoning: An Introduction....Pages 309-343
Defeasible Specification of Utilities....Pages 345-359
Introduction to A Logic of Assertions....Pages 361-385
A New Normative Theory of Probabilistic Logic....Pages 387-403
Back Matter....Pages 405-425