Limitations of Skeptical Default Reasoning

02/06/2013

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by   Jens Doerpmund, et al.

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Poole has shown that nonmonotonic logics do not handle the lottery paradox correctly. In this paper we will show that Pollock's theory of defeasible reasoning fails for the same reason: defeasible reasoning is incompatible with the skeptical notion of derivability.