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On the logic of causal explanation

✍ Scribed by Vladimir Lifschitz

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 877 KB
Volume: 96
Category: Article
ISSN: 0004-3702
DOI: 10.1016/s0004-3702(97)00057-x

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✦ Synopsis

The McCain-Turner semantics of causal rules is based on a fixpoint construction similar to the one found in the definition of default logic. In the special case when the heads of the rules are literals, it can be equivalently expressed by a translation from sets of rules into sets of propos:itional formulas. We define a translation from causal logic into classical logic that characterizes the semantics of arbitrary causal rules, without any restrictions on their syntactic form. This translation suggests a way to extend the McCain-mmer logic to nonpropositional causal theories. @ 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.

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