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Supplement to Defeasible Reasoning

Popper Functions

A Popper function is a function from pairs of propositions to real numbers that satisfies the following conditions:

  1. For some D,E,P[DE]1.
  2. P[AA]=1.
  3. P[A(C&B)]=P[A(B&C)].
  4. P[(B&A)C]=P[(A&B)C].
  5. P[AB]+P[¬AB]=1, or P[CB]=1.
  6. P[(A&B)C]=P[A(B&C)]×P[BC].

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