A Comparative Study of Default Reasoning and Epistemic Processes

A comparative study between the theories of default reasoning and open logic is given.Some concepts of open logic,such as new premises,rejections by facts,reconstructions,epistemic processes, and its limit are introduced to describe the evolution of hypotheses.An improved version of the limit the- orem is given and proved.A model-theoretic interpretation of the closed normal defaults is given using the above concepts and the corresponding completeness is proved.Any extension of a closed normal default theor…