"Nonmonotonic" does not mean "probabilistic"

Keith Stenning; Michiel van Lambalgen

doi:10.1017/S0140525X0900048X

"Nonmonotonic" does not mean "probabilistic"

Keith Stenning
, Michiel van Lambalgen

School of Informatics

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	102-103
Number of pages	2
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	32
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X0900048X
Publication status	Published - Feb 2009

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