What’s Wrong with Non-Monotonic Logic

Citation

Israel, D. J. What’s Wrong with Non-Monotonic Logic, in Proceedings of the First Annual Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University, Aug 1980.

Introduction

In this paper, I ask, and attempt to answer, the following question: What’s Wrong with Non-Monotonic Logic? The answer, briefly, is that the motivation behind the wonderfully impressive work involved in its development is based on a confusion of proof-theoretic with epistemological issues. 

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