Title
Multi-valued Conditional Events Avoid Lewis' Triviality Result
Abstract
The concept of conditional event dealt with here is that given by Coletti and Scozzafava in a series of paper: a detailed account of the relevant theory is in their book "Probabilistic Logic in a Coherent Setting", Kluwer (2002). In this paper, our aim is to show that relying on this definition many of the (putative) inconsistencies and flaws concerning this concept disappear. In particular, the well-known Lewis' triviality principles can be looked on, in this framework, under a different perspective, also due to the circumstance that the concept of "indicative conditionals" (as put by Lewis, and also by Adams) is a very particular case of this general concept of conditional event. A crucial role is played, in our approach, by conditional events of probability 0 and 1.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1007/978-3-540-45062-7_35
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
Field
DocType
probabilistic logic
Default logic,Triviality,Conditional probability,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Probabilistic logic,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2711
0302-9743
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tania Paneni150.91
Romano Scozzafava236748.05