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Defaults in update semantics

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The aim of this paper is twofold: (i) to introduce the framework of update semantics and to explain what kind of semantic phenomena may successfully be analysed in it: (ii) to give a detailed analysis of one such phenomenon: default reasoning.

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  1. ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15, 1012 CP, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Veltman, F. Defaults in update semantics. J Philos Logic 25, 221–261 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00248150

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