Circumscribing Inconsistency

Abstract

We present a new logical approach to reasoning from inconsistent information. The idea is to restore modelhood of inconsistent formulas by providing a third truth-value tolerating inconsistency. The novelty of our approach stems first from the restriction of entailment to three-valued models as similar as possible to two-valued models and second from an implication connective providing a notion of restricted monotonicity. After developing the semantics, we present a corresponding proof system that relies on a circumscription schema furnishing the syntactic counterpart of model minimization.

Cite

Text

Besnard and Schaub. "Circumscribing Inconsistency." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1997.

Markdown

[Besnard and Schaub. "Circumscribing Inconsistency." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1997.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1997/besnard1997ijcai-circumscribing/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{besnard1997ijcai-circumscribing,
  title     = {{Circumscribing Inconsistency}},
  author    = {Besnard, Philippe and Schaub, Torsten},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1997},
  pages     = {150-155},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1997/besnard1997ijcai-circumscribing/}
}