Effects of Fact Mutability in the Interpretation of Counterfactuals
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This paper explores the relationship between fact mutability, intervention and human evaluation of counterfactual conditionals. Two experiments are reported that show the effects of causal strength and causal distance on fact mutability and intervention. Subjects’ answers are compared to the predictions of three models of counterfactual reasoning in Artificial Intelligence. This comparison demonstrates that logical inferences and graph topologies are not sufficient for modeling all aspects of human counterfactual reasoning.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007