“Nonmonotonic” does not mean “probabilistic”

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (1):102-103 (2009)
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Abstract

Oaksford & Chater (O&C) advocate Bayesian probability as a way to deal formally with the pervasive nonmonotonicity of common sense reasoning. We show that some forms of nonmonotonicity cannot be treated by Bayesian methods

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