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Another major issue in formal logic systems is the quantification and incorporation of uncertainty. It is of course possible to represent uncertainty using theories within first-order logic, but many have argued that uncertainty is sufficiently basic to commonsense inference that it should be introduced into formal logic at a foundational level.
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Goertzel, B., Geisweiller, N., Coelho, L., Janicic, P., Pennachin, C. (2011). Quantifying and Managing Uncertainty. In: Real-World Reasoning: Toward Scalable, Uncertain Spatiotemporal, Contextual and Causal Inference. Atlantis Thinking Machines, vol 1. Atlantis Press. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-91216-11-4_3
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