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On representation theorems for nonmonotonic consequence relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Ramón Pino Pérez*
Affiliation:
Lab. D'informatique Fondamentale de Lille, U.A. 369 du CNRS, Université de Lille I, 59655 Villeneuve D'ascq, France E-mail: pino@cril.univ-artois.fr Lab. D'informatique Fondamentale de Lille, U.A. 369 du CNRS, Université de Lille I, 59655 Villeneuve D'ascq, France E-mail: pino@lifl.fr
Carlos Uzcátegui
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida 5101, Venezuela E-mail: uzca@ciens.ula.ve
*
CRIL, Faculté des Sciences, Université d'Artois, 62307 Lens, France

Abstract

One of the main tools in the study of nonmonotonic consequence relations is the representation of such relations in terms of preferential models. In this paper we give an unified and simpler framework to obtain such representation theorems.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2000

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