Accession Number:

ADA250536

Title:

Beyond Specificity

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ROCHESTER UNIV NY DEPT OF PHILOSOPHY

Personal Author(s):

• Kyburg, Henry, Jr

Report Date:

1989-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

9.0

Abstract:

A number of writers have suggested that specificity can be called upon to adjudicate competing default inferences. In the foundations of statistics, specificity is one of several ways to adjudicate the claims of competing reference classes. This suggests that in default inferences also other principles than specificity may be needed. This paper gives examples substantiating this suggestion, and provides formulations of the few other principles needed.

Descriptors:

• *PHILOSOPHY
• *DECISION MAKING
• NUMBERS
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• INTELLIGENCE
• FORMULATIONS

Subject Categories:

• Humanities and History
• Statistics and Probability
• Cybernetics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE