A Circumscriptive Theory for Causal and Evidential Support
Abstract
Reasoning about causality is an interesting application area of formal nonmonotonic theories. Here we focus our attention on a certain aspect of causal reasoning, namely causal asymmetry. In order to provide a qualitative account of causal asymmetry, we present a justification-based approach that uses circumscription to obtain the minimality of causes. We define the notion of causal and evidential support in terms of a justification change with respect to a circumscriptive theory and show how the definition provides desirable interactions between causal and evidential support.
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Paek. "A Circumscriptive Theory for Causal and Evidential Support." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1990.Markdown
[Paek. "A Circumscriptive Theory for Causal and Evidential Support." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1990.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1990/paek1990aaai-circumscriptive/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{paek1990aaai-circumscriptive,
title = {{A Circumscriptive Theory for Causal and Evidential Support}},
author = {Paek, Eunok},
booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {1990},
pages = {545-549},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1990/paek1990aaai-circumscriptive/}
}