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Conceptual entailment is the process through which a conclusion is drawn from one or several concepts. In its simplest form, it takes the form of an inference that can be deduced from a set of characteristic features attached to the concept. This characteristic set therefore plays a role analogous to that of a conditional base. The framework of non-monotonic inference relations leads to the rigorous definition of some basic notions used in concept analysis and allows in this domain the establishment of some original and non-trivial results.
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Freund, M. (2022). What Does a Concept Entail?. In: Béziau, JY., Desclés, JP., Moktefi, A., Pascu, A.C. (eds) Logic in Question. Studies in Universal Logic. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94452-0_18
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