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Part I of this book is devoted to showing that the fundamental question outlined above is indeed very general, providing a framework into which several common inferential procedures fit. Since the fundamental question of probabilistic logic differs from that of non-probabilistic logic, different techniques may be required to answer the two kinds of question. While proof techniques are often invoked to answer the questions posed in non-probabilistic logics, in Part II we show that probabilistic networks can help answer the fundamental question of probabilistic logic.
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Haenni, R., Romeijn, JW., Wheeler, G., Williamson, J. (2011). Introduction. In: Probabilistic Logics and Probabilistic Networks. Synthese Library, vol 350. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0008-6_1
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