| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 298 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Historical background -- First order logic -- The probability calculus -- Interpretations of probability -- Nonstandard measures of support -- Nonmonotonic reasoning -- Theory replacement -- Statistical inference -- Evidential probability -- Semantics -- Applications -- Scientific inference. |
| Summary |
"Coping with uncertainty is a necessary part of ordinary life and is crucial to an understanding of how the mind works. For example, it is a vital element in developing artificial intelligence that will not be undermined by its own rigidities. There have been many approaches to the problem of uncertain inference, ranging from probability to inductive logic to nonmonotonic logic. This book seeks to provide a clear exposition of these approaches within a unified framework." |
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"The principal market for the book will be students and professionals in philosophy, computer science, and artificial intelligence. Among the special features of the book are a chapter on evidential probability, an interpretation of probability specifically developed with an eye to inductive and uncertain inference, which has not received a basic exposition before; chapters on nonmonotonic reasoning and theory replacement that concern matters rarely addressed in standard philosophical texts; and chapters on Mill's methods and statistical inference that cover material sorely lacking in the usual treatments of artificial intelligence and computer science."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Uncertainty (Information theory)
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Probabilities.
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Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
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COMPUTERS -- Information Theory.
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Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. (OCoLC)fst01002068
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Probabilities. (OCoLC)fst01077737
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Uncertainty (Information theory) (OCoLC)fst01160838
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Fundamentos de estatÃstica.
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| Added Author |
Teng, Choh Man.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kyburg, Henry Ely, 1928- Uncertain inference. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521800641 0521001013 (DLC) 00052954 (OCoLC)45283056 |
| ISBN |
0511020686 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511020681 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511612947 (electronic bk.) |
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051161294X (electronic bk.) |
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