On after-images—An explanation.

On Explanation

The term “explanation” has been widely investigated in different disciplines such as cognitive science, knowledgebased systems, linguistics, philosophy of science, artificial intelligence, and teaching. All these disciplines consider certain aspects of the term and make clear that there is not only one such concept but a variety of concepts. This has as a consequence that there was no common ag...

Constraints on Bayesian Explanation

Introduction The hypothesis that human cognition may be well characterized as a set of Bayesian computations has been the topic of considerable debate over the last two decades. Recently, critics have argued that this hypothesis is either unlikely to be true or otherwise too unconstrained to be particularly useful for explaining cognition (e.g., Bowers & Davis, 2012), whereas proponents have de...

the geopolitics of afghanistan after september 11, 2001, and its impact on iranian national security

abstract u.s. attack to afghanistan after 9/11 provided opportunities for us who tried to become the dominant power after collapse of ussr and bipolar world. thinkers like fukuyama believed american liberal democrats thought would be universally accepted without resistances. liberal democracy is the best and final model of governance; in this regard, united state has moral responsibilities for...

On Explanation-Oriented Data Mining

Detecting and Correcting Errors of Omission After Explanation-Based Learning

In this paper, we address an issue that arises when the background knowledge used by explanationbased learning is incorrect. In particular, we consider the problems that can be caused by a domain theory that may be overly specific. Under this condition, generalizations formed by explanation-based learning will make errors of omission when they are relied upon to make predictions or explanations...