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The new Tweety puzzle: arguments against monistic Bayesian approaches in epistemology and cognitive science.

In this paper we discuss the new Tweety puzzle. The original Tweety puzzle was addressed by approaches in non-monotonic logic, which aim to adequately represent the Tweety case, namely that Tweety is a penguin and, thus, an exceptional bird, which cannot fly, although in general birds can fly. The n...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 190; no. 8; pp. 1407 - 1436
Main Authors: Unterhuber, Matthias, Schurz, Gerhard
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature May2013
Subjects:
Theory of knowledge
Bayes' theorem
Probability theory
Probabilism
Cognitive science
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