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A Defeasible Logic of Intention

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Intentional reasoning is a form of logical reasoning with a temporal-intentional and defeasible nature. By covering conditions of material and formal adequacy we describe a defeasible logic of intention to support the thesis that intentional reasoning is bona fide reasoning.

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Castro-Manzano, J.M. (2013). A Defeasible Logic of Intention. In: Batyrshin, I., González Mendoza, M. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. MICAI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7629. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37807-2_28

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