TY - GEN ID - cogprints410 UR - http://cogprints.org/410/ A1 - McCarthy, John TI - Circumscription - A Form of Non-Monotonic Reasoning Y1 - 1980/// N2 - Humans and intelligent computer programs must often jump to the conclusion that the objects they can determine to have certain properties or relations are the only objects that do. Circumscription formalizes such conjectural reasoning. AV - public ER -