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Notes on Inference: A Somewhat Skewed Survey

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It is widely agreed that any reasonable AI system has to reason. Once it is agreed why that must be so, one can go on to look at alternative conceptions of what reasoning consist of. This chapter presents an extremely partial and incomplete survey of some of the options.

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Israel, D. (1986). Notes on Inference: A Somewhat Skewed Survey. In: Brodie, M.L., Mylopoulos, J. (eds) On Knowledge Base Management Systems. Topics in Information Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4980-1_12

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