Default reasoning and the qualification problem Many of the things people know take the form of "working assumptions." For example, if a bird comes up in conversation, people typically picture an animal that is fist sized, sings, and flies.
default reasoning reasoning based on things that are usually, but not necessarily, true; e.g. most people can drive a car.
Default reasoning
Rule-based methods for uncertain reasoning
Representing ignorance: Dempster-Shafer theory
Representing vagueness: Fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic ...
Default Reasoning, Nonmonotonic Logics, and the Frame Problem. "Nonmonotonic formal systems have been proposed as an extension to classical first-order logic that will capture the process of human "default reasoning" or "plausible inference" through ...
The simplest kind of non-monotonic reasoning is default reasoning in which a conclusion is to be inferred by default, but the conclusion can be withdrawn if there is evidence to the contrary.
 See also: Artificial intelligence, Knowledge, Inference, Planning, Expert system
  
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