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Plausible inference for default conditionals

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Weydert, E. (1993). Plausible inference for default conditionals. In: Clarke, M., Kruse, R., Moral, S. (eds) Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty. ECSQARU 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 747. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0028221

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