Reasoning About Uncertainty | Reasoning about Uncertainty

Joseph Y. Halpern

The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Halpern, Joseph Y., 1953–
Reasoning about uncertainty / Joseph Y. Halpern.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

0-262-08320-5

1. Uncertainty (Information theory) 2. Reasoning. 3. Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
I. Title.

Q375.H35 2003
003′.54—dc21

2003044565

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To Daniel, a low probability event of unbounded utility, without whom this book would have undoubtedly been finished a little earlier; and to all my collaborators over the years, without whom there would have been no book to write.