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Being Consistent About Inconsistency: Toward the Rational Fusing of Inconsistent Propositional Logic Bases

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This short note discusses preliminary steps in the way to a general picture of inconsistency handling in an information fusion perspective, by relating some natural approaches.

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  1. Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Didier Dubois & Henri Prade

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  1. City University of New York, New York, New York, USA

    Arnold Koslow

  2. Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

    Arthur Buchsbaum

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Dubois, D., Prade, H. (2015). Being Consistent About Inconsistency: Toward the Rational Fusing of Inconsistent Propositional Logic Bases. In: Koslow, A., Buchsbaum, A. (eds) The Road to Universal Logic. Studies in Universal Logic. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15368-1_25

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