Against All Odds: When Logic Meets Probability

Authors
Publication date 2017
Host editors
  • J.-P. Katoen
  • R. Langerak
  • A. Rensink
Book title ModelEd, TestEd, TrustEd
Book subtitle Essays Dedicated to Ed Brinksma on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday
ISBN
  • 9783319682693
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783319682709
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Pages (from-to) 239-253
Publisher Cham: Springer
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract This paper is a light walk along interfaces between logic and probability, triggered by a chance encounter with Ed Brinksma. It is not a research paper, or a literature survey, but a pointer to issues. I discuss both direct combinations of logic and probability and structured ways in which logic can be seen as a qualitative version of probability theory. I end by sketching a concrete program for classifying qualitative scenarios that would lend themselves to simple logical reasoning methods, but I also acknowledge a challenge: the ‘unreasonable effective of probability’.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68270-9_12
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