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title: "Does Probability Have a Place in Non-monotonic Reasoning?"
authors:
  - "Matthew L. Ginsberg"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/19"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/0019.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1985
pages: "107-109"
track: "Automated Reasoning"
keywords:
---

# Does Probability Have a Place in Non-monotonic Reasoning?

Matthew L. Ginsberg

*Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 107-109.

## Abstract

Arguments are presented in favor of the answer ''yes". A qu a ntitative approach which overcomes the usual need for a pr io ri prob abilities is presented . Sorile of the practica l adv a ntages of using probabilities in a production system are described.