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1. His " epistemic norms " are governed by defeasible reasoning; they are " ceteris paribus " conditions that can admit exceptions.
2. Nicholas Rescher's " Dialectics " is an example of how difficult it was for philosophers to contemplate more complex systems of defeasible reasoning.
3. Some attempts have been made to model these temporal logics using both computational formalisms such as the Event Calculus and temporal logics such as defeasible temporal logic.
4. As with pragmatic inference generally, such inferences are defeasible or cancellable-the inferred meaning may not be true, even though the literal meaning is true.
5. Oxford, 1990 was Pollock's deep investigation of the relationship between defeasible reasoning and the estimation of probability from frequencies ( direct inference of probability ).
6. The failure of logicians to dismiss defeasibility in epistemology ( as Cambridge's logicians had done to Hart decades earlier ) landed defeasible reasoning in the philosophical mainstream.
7. Defeasible reasoning finds its fullest expression in jurisprudence, ethics and moral philosophy, epistemology, pragmatics and conversational decision theories, and in knowledge representation and planning in artificial intelligence.
8. Sometimes a set of defeasible rules can be rewritten, with more cogency, with explicit ( local ) pre-conditions instead of ( non-local ) competing rules.
9. In logic programming approaches, negation of failure is often used to handle non-monotonicity, but specific non-monotonic logics such as defeasible logic have also been used.
10. During the process of deduction, the strict rules are always applied, while a defeasible rule can be applied only if no defeater of a higher priority specifies that it should not.