Floating Conclusions and Zombie Paths: Two Deep Difficulties in the "Directly Skeptical" Approach to Defeasible Inheritance Nets

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  1991

• Venue

  Artificial Intelligence

• Publication date

  1991-03-01

• Fields of study

  Philosophy, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1016/0004-3702(91)90061-N
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