1991 Excerpt of Editor's Note for AI MAGAZINE piece with J. Dorosh EDITED PARTIAL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP ON DEFEASIBLE REASONING WITH SPECIFICITY AND MULTIPLE INHERITANCE Editor's Note We have tried to produce a document that captures the zeitgeist during a time of clashing intuitions, a document that makes public some of the discussions that do not belong in technical papers or have not appeared in print, but nevertheless should be accessible to students of the area.