Two Kinds of Non-monotonic Analogical Inference Two Kinds of Non-monotonic Analogical Inference ?
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This paper addresses two modi of analogical reasoning. The rst modus is based on the explicit representation of the justiication for the analogical inference. The second modus is based on the representation of typical instances by concept structures. The two kinds of analogical inferences rely on diierent forms of relevance knowledge that cause non-monotonicity. While the uncertainty and non-monotonicity of analogical inferences is not questioned, a semantic characterization of analogical reasoning has not been given yet. We introduce a minimal model semantics for analogical inference with typical instances.
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