This article surveys probablistic approaches to modeling information retrieval. The basic
concepts of probabilistic approaches to information retrieval are outlined and the principles …

The standard use of the propositional calculus ('PC') in analyzing the validity of inferences
involving conditionals leads to fallacies, and the problem is to determine where PC may be …

The truthful speaker wants not to assert falsehoods, wherefore he is willing to assert only
what he takes to be very probably true. He deems it permissible to assert that A only if P (A) …

Conditional sentences are among the most intriguing and puzzling features of language:
analysis of their meaning and function has important implications for, and uses in, many …

The ability to think conditional thoughts is a basic part of our mental equipment. A view of the
world would be an idle, ineffectual affair without them. There's not much point in recognising …

The authors outline a theory of conditionals of the form If A then C and If A then possibly C.
The 2 sorts of conditional have separate core meanings that refer to sets of possibilities …

But what do these statements mean? This may be understood as a metaphysical question
about what kinds of things are probabilities, or more generally as a question about what …

PRUF—an acronym for Possibilistic Relational Universal Fuzzy—is a meaning
representation language for natural languages which departs from the conventional …

What does' if'mean? It is one of the most commonly used words in the English language, in
itself a sign to the importance of conditional thinking to human cognitive life. We make …

In recent years, two new and fundamentally different accounts of conditionals and their logic
have been put forth, one based on nearness of possible worlds (Stalnaker,'A Theory of …