Turner’s logic of universal causation, propositional logic, and logic programming

Abstract. Turner’s logic of universal causation is a general logic for nonmonotonic reasoning. It has its origin in McCain and Turner’s causal action theories which have been translated to propositional logic and logic programming with nested expressions. In this paper, we propose to do the same for Turner’s logic, and show thatTurner’s logic can actually be mapped to McCain and Turner’s causal theories. These results can be used to construct a system for reasoning in Turner’s logic.