III.—SYMBOLIC REASONING. (II.)

Chapter II Automated Reasoning

Temporal Reasoning with Ii-abduction Second Draft

Abduction can be deened as reasoning from observations to causes. In the context of dynamic systems and temporal domains, an important part of the background knowledge consists of causal information. The section shows how in the context of event calculus, diierent reasoning problems in a broad class of temporal reasoning domains can be mapped to abductive reasoning problems. The domains conside...

Reasoning About Action II: The Qualification Problem

We present a computationally eeective approach to representing and reasoning about actions with many qualiications. The approach involves treating actions as qualiied not by speciic facts that may or may not hold when the action is executed, but instead as potentially qualiied by general constraints describing the domain being investigated. Speciically, we suggest that the result of the action ...

Necessity Approach clinical reasoning in Medical education

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Reasoning and intuiting the standards for judgments

  What is the extension to which the act of reasoning and the standards of judgments are interrelated? The author, proposing Muslim scholars` views in the field and relying on traditions, ahadith, has concluded that firstly one has to answer the question: does the standard and expediency of Divine judgment lies in the judgment or in its object? The latter is signified, however, with view to so...