An empirical test of patterns for nonmonotonic inference
which could be investigated in the usual way described above, but as general emerging properties of the inferential apparatus. Wc therefore refer to âthe left partâ (LP) and âthe right partâ (RP) of the properties instead of using the terms âpremiscsâ and âconclusionâ of a pattern. 2. 1. Patterns for nonmonotonic inference.