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....principles, such as least action and minimal coupling, are the cornerstones of classical mechanics and field theory. The concept of preference has also been studied in other fields including decision theory, economics, philosophical logic, artificial intelligence, operations research, and ethics [5, 6, 12, 21, 96]. In a very broad sense, preference is a binary relation over some appropriate domain. von Wright [96] suggests that the preference relation of primary importance is the one between states of affairs that are captured by possibly infinite sets of propositions. While our interest in preference is ....

....The concept of preference has also been studied in other fields including decision theory, economics, philosophical logic, artificial intelligence, operations research, and ethics [5, 6, 12, 21, 96] In a very broad sense, preference is a binary relation over some appropriate domain. von Wright [96] suggests that the preference relation of primary importance is the one between states of affairs that are captured by possibly infinite sets of propositions. While our interest in preference is inspired by work in these various areas, our immediate goal in extending logic programming with ....

G. H. von Wright. The Logic of Preference. University of Edinburgh Press, 1963.

....to the notion of extreme value aggregate operations (such as min and max) in deductive databases. The concept of preference has also been studied in other fields including decision theory, economics, philosophical logic, artificial intelligence, and operations research. Recently, von Wright [37] attempted a logical formalization of preference by modeling it as a binary relation amongst propositions. Mantha et al. [5, 28] on the other hand, argued that a more uniform notion of preference is one that makes preference a binary relation amongst states of affairs. He introduced a family of ....

G. H. von Wright. The Logic of Preference. University of Edinburgh Press, 1963.

.... Theoretic Deontics: From Utilities and Beliefs to Goals and Obligations Given a proposition that describes some condition or event in the world, what information is needed before we can evaluate the merit of obtaining , or, at the least, whether 1 is preferred to 2 Preference logics [23] have assumed that regardless of the reasons for our preferences, there are some basic logical constraints that tie preferences among propositions to preferences among their constituents. For example, von Wright has proposed (among others) the constraint If p is preferred to q then one should ....

....Relations to Other Accounts 6.1 Deontic and Preference Logics Obligation statements of the pragmatic variety have been investigated in two branches of philosophy, deontic logic and preference logic. Surprisingly, despite an intense effort to establish a satisfactory account of ought statements [23, 22, 12], the literature of both logics is loaded with paradoxes and voids of principle. This raises the question of whether ought statements are destined to forever elude formalization or that the approach taken by deontic logicians has been misdirected. I believe the answer involves a combination of ....

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Von Wright, G.H., The Logic of Preference, University of Edinburgh Press, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1963.

....search paths of suboptimal solutions. This operational semantics is complete for the class of stratified preference logic programs. 1 Introduction The concept of preference has been studied in diverse fields, including decision theory, economics, philosophical logic and artificial intelligence [1, 12]. While our interest in preference is inspired by work in these contexts, our immediate goal in extending logic programming with preference is motivated by a host of practical applications: scheduling, document processing, parsing and heuristic programming. In these applications, we are often ....

....is a relation between states of affairs or possible worlds each characterized by a possibly infinite set of propositions. It is general enough to admit all the kinds of preference that have been studied in decision theory, social choice theory, economics, ethics, philosophical logic, etc. [1, 12]. It is capable of modeling preference relations with special properties. For instance, irreflexivity, transitivity (or non transitivity) and other properties of preference can be modeled by adding appropriate modal axioms [10] 3.2 Models for Preference Logic Programs We build models for ....

G. H. von Wright. The Logic of Preference. University of Edinburgh Press, 1963.

....time and effort formalizing other intensional notions such as belief and knowledge (and with mixed results at best) Decision theory, economics, ethics and philosophical logic are other disciplines where the notion of preference has been studied extensively. But in almost all accounts, 18] 14] [24], 25] 13] 15] preference is taken to be a special binary relation on individual propositions, i.e. those objects that can be represented by sentences of the underlying logical language (these propositions are supposed to characterize states of affairs) The preference statement pPq is ....

von Wright, G. H. The Logic of Preference. University of Edinburgh Press, Edinburgh Scotland, 1963.

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