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One of the benefit properties implied by the extensionality axiom of Hilbert's epsilon calculus is that the calculus becomes complete with respect to the choice structures as semantics. Another implication of the axiom, discussed in the…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-07-14 Zoltan Molnar

This work presents an operational and geometric approach to logic. It starts from the multilinear elective decomposition of binary logical functions in the original form introduced by George Boole. A justification on historical grounds is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Zeno Toffano

This note generalizes the notion of conditional probability to Riesz spaces using the order-theoretic approach. With the aid of this concept, we establish the law of total probability and Bayes' theorem in Riesz spaces; we also prove an…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Liang Hong

We introduce a novel real-valued endogenous logic for expressing properties of probabilistic transition systems called Riesz modal logic. The design of the syntax and semantics of this logic is directly inspired by the theory of Riesz…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Robert Furber , Radu Mardare , Matteo Mio

The preferential conditional logic PCL, introduced by Burgess, and its extensions are studied. First, a natural semantics based on neighbourhood models, which generalise Lewis' sphere models for counterfactual logics, is proposed. Soundness…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Marianna Girlando , Sara Negri , Nicola Olivetti

Bayesian statistics is concerned with conducting posterior inference for the unknown quantities in a given statistical model. Conventional Bayesian inference requires the specification of a probabilistic model for the observed data, and the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-11 David T. Frazier , Christopher Drovandi , David J. Nott

In this paper we prove that all the existing conditional event algebras embed into a three-valued extension of temporal logic of discrete past time, which the authors of this paper have proposed in anothe paper as a general model of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jerzy Tyszkiewicz , Achim Hoffmann , Arthur Ramer

This paper proposes an extension to classical regular expressions by the addition of two operators allowing the inclusion of boolean formulae from the zeroth order logic. These expressions are called constrained expressions. The associated…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Jean-Marc Champarnaud , Ludovic Mignot , Florent Nicart

In this paper we recall some results for conditional events, compound conditionals, conditional random quantities, p-consistency, and p-entailment. Then, we show the equivalence between bets on conditionals and conditional bets, by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Angelo Gilio , David E. Over , Niki Pfeifer , Giuseppe Sanfilippo

We provide a logical framework in which a resource-bounded agent can be seen to perform approximations of probabilistic reasoning. Our main results read as follows. First we identify the conditions under which propositional probability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Paolo Baldi , Hykel Hosni

We augment LP with a strong conditional operator, to yield a logic we call "strong LP," or LP=>. The resulting logic can speak of consistency in more discriminating ways, but introduces new possibilities for trivializing paradoxes.

Logic · Mathematics 2013-04-25 Nick Thomas

We present a semantics for adding uncertainty to conditional logics for default reasoning and belief revision. We are able to treat conditional sentences as statements of conditional probability, and express rules for revision such as "If A…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Craig Boutilier

This paper presents complexity analysis and variational methods for inference in probabilistic description logics featuring Boolean operators, quantification, qualified number restrictions, nominals, inverse roles and role hierarchies.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Fabio Gagliardi Cozman , Rodrigo Bellizia Polastro

A new method is developed to represent probabilistic relations on multiple random events. Where previously knowledge bases containing probabilistic rules were used for this purpose, here a probability distribution over the relations is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-08 Manfred Jaeger

Bayesian probabilistic programming languages (BPPLs) let users denote statistical models as code while the interpreter infers the posterior distribution. The semantics of BPPLs are usually mathematically complex and unable to reason about…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Shing Hin Ho , Nicolas Wu , Azalea Raad

This paper argues for a modal view of probability. The syntax and semantics of one particularly strong probability logic are discussed and some examples of the use of the logic are provided. We show that it is both natural and useful to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Alan M. Frisch , Peter Haddawy

We present a symbolic machinery that admits both probabilistic and causal information about a given domain and produces probabilistic statements about the effect of actions and the impact of observations. The calculus admits two types of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Judea Pearl

In this paper, we introduce a new defeasible version of propositional standpoint logic by integrating Kraus et al.'s defeasible conditionals, Britz and Varzinczak's notions of defeasible necessity and distinct possibility, along with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Nicholas Leisegang , Thomas Meyer , Ivan Varzinczak

In Probabilistic Logic Nilsson uses the device of a probability distribution over a set of possible worlds to assign probabilities to the sentences of a logical language. In his paper Nilsson concentrated on inference and associated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Fahiem Bacchus

In previous work "Betweenness algebras" we introduced and examined the class of betweenness algebras. In the current paper we study a larger class of algebras with binary operators of possibility and sufficiency, the weak mixed algebras.…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Ivo Düntsch , Rafał Gruszczyński , Paula Menchón