2026/01/28 by Alexander Gebharter, Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla, Michał Sikorski
Computer Science · Psychology · #Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge #Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation #Philosophy and Theoretical Science
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s11098-025-02472-z
Abstract Suppositions can be classified as indicative versus subjunctive and full versus partial. We propose a causal account of suppositional reasoning that naturally unifies all four types of reasoning based on this classification, provides a justification of the rather heterogenous canonical update rules, and gives rise to a new update rule for the partial subjunctive case in terms of generalized imaging.