“Circumscription: A form of non-monotonic reasoning”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Logic and Artificial Intelligence] Reference

Knowledge and liberation is a multistep, non-monotonic process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Occam's Hammer: Creationist Rhetoric and the Myth of Philosophical Naturalism - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

“Conditional implications and non-monotonic consequence”, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Logic and Artificial Intelligence] Reference

(This leads to some kinds of default or non-monotonic inference.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Logical Consequence] Reference

In general, for given sample, correlation is a non-monotonic function of running-mean window length.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Holland and Webster Paper « Climate Audit] Reference

On the subject of witnessing–I wonder whether under certain conditions, witnessing can be non-monotonic?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denyse O'Leary and the Revolution - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The idea of minimization is at the basis of one of the earliest non-monotonic formalisms, McCarthy's circumscription.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference

The previous discussion gives a rather clear picture of the desirable features of a non-monotonic consequence relation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference

Reasoning about statistics is horribly non-monotonic more true information selected carefully leads to the wrong conclusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Anchoring Effects and the Law:] Reference

We assume that these defeasible conclusions are built into whatever inferential mechanism implements the non-monotonic relation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference

However, there are reasons to think that Rational Monotony might not be a correct feature of a non-monotonic consequence relation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference

I clarify the concept of class voting by distinguishing between monotonic and non-monotonic associations between class and vote choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class and Voting: Chavismo and Bushismo] Reference

Gabbay (1985), that Reflexivity, Cut and Cautious Monotony are critical properties for any well-behaved non-monotonic consequence relation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference

Since then, class voting in Venezuela has been non-monotonic, with the very wealthiest Venezuelans disproportionately voting against Chavez.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class and Voting: Chavismo and Bushismo] Reference

It suggests that defeasible (non-monotonic) logic, probability theory and other non-classical formal frameworks may be well suited to this task.    From Wordnik.com.  [Informal Logic] Reference

I believe these extensions necessarily need to be "non-monotonic" ie. rules can be drawn and undone and rescoped in the light of new decisions/info.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Fullness of Time] Reference

So if your attempts to witness turn off more people to Christianity than they attract, resulting in a net loss of souls, would that be considered non-monotonic witnessing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denyse O'Leary and the Revolution - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

All non-monotonic logics handle conflicts of the first kind in the same way: indeed, it is the very essence of defeasible reasoning that conclusions can be retracted when new facts are learned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference

If one of the goals of non-monotonic logic is to provide a materially adequate account of defeasible reasoning, it is important to rely on a rich supply of examples to guide and hone intuitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference

Even though this may not drive the entire annual record into a non-monotonic response, it still distorts the temperature/ring width response in a way that cannot be removed by subsequent analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bristlecones, Foxtails and Temperature « Climate Audit] Reference

There are two different kinds of conflicts that can arise within a given non-monotonic framework: (i) conflicts between defeasible conclusions and "hard facts," some of which possibly newly learned; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference

Grice, Paul | implicature | logic: non-monotonic | pragmatics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defaults in Semantics and Pragmatics] Reference

More precisely, the historical time is a non-monotonic function of the movie time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

Thus, the model predicts a non-monotonic relationship between openness and the benefit of exchange rate flexibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [BNET Articles] Reference

We find that the rhetoric and reality of pork-barrel spending, and also the efficiency of the spending regime, bear a non-monotonic relationship to the degree of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jakartass] Reference

This pattern, known as a non-monotonic (or 'inverted-U') dose-response curve, has been observed in multiple experiments with BPA previously and is a characteristic of many endocrine disruptors and endogenous hormones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

Shift of bias as non-monotonic reasoning (Research report RC.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pontius Pilate, 21st Century Role Model] Reference

BTW, there’s plenty of evidence for the Laffer Curve, which simply postulates that tax revenue is a concave, non-monotonic function of tax rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [American political conservatism impedes the understanding of science - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Similarly, in the case of perception ” understood as a kind of non-demonstrative (i.e., defeasible, or non-monotonic) inference from sensory ˜premises™ to perceptual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modularity of Mind] Reference

"non-monotonic" because the set of conclusions warranted on the basis of a given knowledge base does not increase (in fact, it can shrink) with the size of the knowledge base itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference

This is not to say that further increases won’t have a negative impact, but that, if I may put it this way, the impact of global warming on net human welfare in some sense is nonlinear and non-monotonic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treydte, Moberg, Soon and Baliunas « Climate Audit] Reference

“A note on non-monotonic modal logic”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Logic and Artificial Intelligence] Reference

3 non-linear and especially non-monotonic relationships with temperature.    From Wordnik.com.  [AGU Fall Meeting 2005 « Climate Audit] Reference

1980) dedicated to these new formalisms, an event that has come to be regarded as the "coming of age" of non-monotonic logic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference