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We prove some embedding theorems for classical conditional logic, covering ‘finitely cumulative’ logics, ‘preferential’ logics and what we call ‘semi-monotonic’ logics. Technical tools called ‘partial frames’ and ‘frame morphisms’ in the context of neighborhood semantics are used in the proof.
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Xu, M. Some Embedding Theorems for Conditional Logic. J Philos Logic 35, 599–619 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-005-9021-8
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