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Default entailment

A preferential construction semantics for defeasible inference

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Ipke Wachsmuth Claus-Rainer Rollinger Wilfried Brauer

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Weydert, E. (1995). Default entailment. In: Wachsmuth, I., Rollinger, CR., Brauer, W. (eds) KI-95: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 981. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60343-3_35

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