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REACTIVE PREFERENTIAL STRUCTURES AND NONMONOTONIC CONSEQUENCE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

DOV M. GABBAY*
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, King’s College London, and Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University
KARL SCHLECHTA*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Marseille
*
*DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, KING’S COLLEGE LONDON, STRAND, LONDON WC2R 2LS, UK. E-mail: dov.gabbay@kcl.ac.uk, URL: http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/dg
†DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY, 52900 RAMAT-GAN, ISRAEL, LABORATOIRE D’INFORMATIQUE FONDAMENTALE DE MARSEILLE, UMR 6166, CNRS AND UNIVERSITÉ DE PROVENCE, CMI, 39, RUE JOLIOT-CURIE, F-13453 MARSEILLE CEDEX 13, FRANCE. E-mail: ks@cmi.univ-mrs.fr, karl.schlechta@web.de, URL: http://www.cmi.univ-mrs.fr/~ks
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Abstract

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We introduce Information Bearing Relation Systems (IBRS) as an abstraction of many logical systems. These are networks with arrows recursively leading to other arrows etc. We then define a general semantics for IBRS, and show that a special case of IBRS generalizes in a very natural way preferential semantics and solves open representation problems for weak logical systems. This is possible, as we can “break” the strong coherence properties of preferential structures by higher arrows, that is, arrows, which do not go to points, but to arrows themselves.

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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2009