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title: "Reasoned Assumptions and Pareto Optimality"
authors:
  - "Jon Doyle"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/16"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/0016.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1985
pages: "87-89"
track: "Automated Reasoning"
keywords:
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# Reasoned Assumptions and Pareto Optimality

Jon Doyle

*Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 87-89.

## Abstract

Defau lt and non -monoto nic infe1·e nce rules are not really episternological statement s, hut are in~it~ad desires or pr<:f<~rences of t.he agent. about. the trJ akcup ol' its ow11 uwntal st.at.e (epbt ,crnic or oLhc rwi He). Th<' rundaJJICrtl..a.l relation in 11011-fll{)fJ Oio ui c logic i ~ not so 1!1Udl "" lf-knowl<!dgc as self-choice or sdl'-detcrminalion, and the fu nJam cnta l justilkation of the int.erpretati<)n'!. and structures involved coniC from decision theory and cconc.mics rath er than from logic a nd episte mology .