Inconsistency and preservation

Paul Wong*

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    Abstract

    One of the main goals of paraconsistent logics is to develop a theory of reasoning that can tolerate inconsistencies. In this paper we present a novel way to analyze and compare several paraconsistent reasoning mechanisms in terms of their preservational properties. The main idea is that although an inconsistent set of data cannot all be true, such a set may nevertheless carry useful properties that are worthy of preservation. One of these properties provides a theoretically interesting way to measure the relative incoherence of a data set; another one provides a way to measure the quantity of empirical information in an inconsistent set.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationPRICAI 2000, Topics in Artificial Intelligence - 6th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings
    EditorsRiichiro Mizoguchi, John Slaney
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages50-60
    Number of pages11
    ISBN (Print)3540679251, 9783540679257
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2000
    Event6th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2000 - Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Duration: 28 Aug 20001 Sept 2000

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume1886 LNAI
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference6th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2000
    Country/TerritoryAustralia
    CityMelbourne, VIC
    Period28/08/001/09/00

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