BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0 ID:: STAN//CS-TR-80-788 ENTRY:: June 08, 1995 ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science TITLE:: Circumscription - a form of non-monotonic reasoning TYPE:: Technical Report AUTHOR:: McCarthy, John DATE:: February 1980 PAGES:: 17 ABSTRACT:: 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. Circumscripion formalizes such conjectural reasoning. NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19950608] END:: STAN//CS-TR-80-788