The question addressed in this paper is how the degree of justification of a belief is determined. A conclusion may be supported by several different arguments, the arguments typically being defeasible, and there may also be arguments of varying strengths for defeaters for some of the supporting arg
Heuristics, justification, and defeasible reasoning
β Scribed by Timothy R. Colburn
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 946 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0924-6495
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