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Circumscription (logic)

Known as: Circumscription 
Circumscription is a non-monotonic logic created by John McCarthy to formalize the common sense assumption that things are as expected unless… 
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Artificial intelligenceClosed-world assumptionDefeasible reasoningEvent calculus

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Logic programming

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2009
2009
Evidence for species differentiation within the Ancistrocladus tectorius complex (Ancistrocladaceae) in Southeast Asia: a molecular approach
Representatives of the genus Ancistrocladus, woody lianas of tropical Africa and Asia, contain pharmaceutically interesting… 
2005
2005
A Chloroplast DNA Phylogeny of Solanum Section Lasiocarpa
Solanum section Lasiocarpa includes about a dozen species with a center of diversity in the New World tropics. Solanum… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Distribution patterns of metapopulation determined by Allee effects
The Allee effect, the social dysfunction and failure to mate successfully when population density falls below a certain threshold… 
2002
2002
Phylogenetic relationships within the Sphacelariales (Phaeophyceae): rbcL, RUBISCO spacer and morphology
Phylogenetic relationships within the Sphacelariales sensu stricto were investigated using both a molecular and a morphological… 
2000
2000
Sarcostemma R.Br. (Apocynaceae — Asclepiadoideae) — a controversial generic circumscription reconsidered: Evidence fromtrnL-F spacers
The polyphyly ofSarcostemma sensu latu, suspected on morphological and karyological reasons is confirmed by analysis of thetrnL-F… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Collapse ofIsertieae, re-establishment ofMussaendeae, and a new genus ofSabiceeae (Rubiaceae); phylogenetic relationships based onrbcL data
The circumscription of theIsertieae has been under debate for a long time and recently a phylogeny based on morphological data… 
1993
1993
MODELING THE PHONOLOGY–MORPHOLOGY INTERFACE
1992
1992
Evolution and phylogeny of cetrarioid lichens
TheAcharian genusCetraria has not been scrutinised in the same way as the genusParmelia in terms of circumscription of segregate… 
1982
1982
Circumscriptive Ignorance
In formal systems that reason about knowledge, inferring that an agent actually does not know a particular fact can be… 
Review
1942
Review
1942
A survey of the American species of vaccinium, subgenus euvaccinium
In the preceding paper I have noted the possibility that fu ture work on the phylogeny of the Vaccinieae may indicate the need… 
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