Circumscription is a non-monotonic logic created by John McCarthy to formalize the common sense assumption that things are as expected unless otherwise...
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up circumscription in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Circumscription may refer to: Circumscribed circle Circumscription (logic) Circumscription (taxonomy)...
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reference -- Circular reporting -- Circumscription (logic) -- Circumscription (taxonomy) -- Classical logic -- Clocked logic -- Cognitive bias -- Cointerpretability...
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Logic programming is a programming, database and knowledge representation paradigm based on formal logic. A logic program is a set of sentences in logical...
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Closed-world assumption (category Logic programming)
allowing anything to be possibly true. Circumscription (logic) Default logic Negation as failure Non-monotonic logic Operational design domain Stable model...
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default logic; circumscription. Translations exist or not depending on which conditions are imposed. Translations from propositional default logic to classical...
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model-theoretic means include first-order circumscription, closed-world assumption, and autoepistemic logic. Philosophy portal Logic programming Negation as failure...
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Look up circumscription in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In biological taxonomy, circumscription is the content of a taxon, that is, the delimitation...
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Missionaries and cannibals problem (category Logic puzzles)
exam board to withdraw a text book. Wolf, goat and cabbage problem Circumscription (logic) Pressman, Ian; Singmaster, David (June 1989). "'The Jealous Husbands'...
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much more influence than Barwise and Perry’s ideas". Circumscription (logic) – Non-monotonic logic created by John McCarthy Montague grammar – Approach...
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Outline of artificial intelligence (section Logic)
problem Non-monotonic logic Abductive reasoning Default logic Circumscription (logic) Closed world assumption Domain specific logics Representing categories...
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Frame problem (category Logic programming)
by using a non-monotonic logic, such as first-order logic with circumscription or by treating the event calculus as a logic program using negation as...
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Qualification problem (category Logic programming)
think of additional requirements not yet stated. Non-monotonic logic Circumscription Reiter, Raymond (2001). Knowledge in Action: Logical Foundations...
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Yale shooting problem (category Logic programming)
explaining the syntax of a new logic for reasoning about actions), rather than being presented as a problem. Circumscription (logic) Frame problem Situation...
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Event calculus (category Logic in computer science)
Shanahan and Rob Miller in the 1990s and reformulated in first-order logic with circumscription. These and later extensions have been used to formalize non-deterministic...
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John McCarthy (computer scientist) (category Logic programming researchers)
games (see Kotok-McCarthy). From 1978 to 1986, McCarthy developed the circumscription method of non-monotonic reasoning. In 1982, he seems to have originated...
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correctly. McCarthy's approach to fix the frame problem was circumscription, a kind of non-monotonic logic where deductions could be made from actions that need...
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Artificial intelligence (section Logic)
Default reasoning, Frame problem, default logic, non-monotonic logics, circumscription, closed world assumption, abduction: Russell & Norvig (2021, §10...
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Stable model semantics (category Logic programming)
Froidevaux, C. (1987). "Minimalism subsumes default logic and circumscription". Proceedings: Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, Ithaca, New York, June 22-25...
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Situation calculus (category Logic programming)
The situation calculus is a logic formalism designed for representing and reasoning about dynamical domains. It was first introduced by John McCarthy...
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Negation as failure (category Logic programming)
Negation as failure (NAF, for short) is a non-monotonic inference rule in logic programming, used to derive n o t p {\displaystyle \mathrm {not} ~p} (i...
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as Music theory and Visual Arts Theories. Anthropology: Carneiro's circumscription theory Astronomy: Alpher–Bethe–Gamow theory — B2FH Theory — Copernican...
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Empire (section Circumscription theory)
intensity of the World Wars if not was their main factor (chapter "Circumscription theory" below). According to one thesis, the overseas world provided...
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Preferential entailment (category Logic in computer science)
to ≤ {\displaystyle \leq } are also models of G {\displaystyle G} . Circumscription can be seen as the particular case of preferential entailment when...
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Belief revision (category Logic)
Wiley, London, 702-707. M. Winslett (1989). Sometimes updates are circumscription. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial...
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Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. It was the first step towards circumscription of the powers of sovereign nations, soon followed by the Genocide Convention...
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Ernest Gellner (category Philosophers of logic)
over his attack on linguistic philosophy. As the Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics for 22 years, the...
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about the nature of the good life. Rawls received both the Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy and the National Humanities Medal in 1999. The latter was...
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based on philosophy of existence and biological facts. Such a narrow circumscription of biosophy is in our opinion no obstacle to widen the definition to...
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recognition. He described plan recognition as a logical inference process of circumscription. All actions and plans are uniformly referred to as goals, and a recognizer's...
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