Nonlogical Methods for Commonsense Reasoning
Abstract
Why use logic for commonsense reasoning? What about other approaches? We review several other important approaches to commonsense reasoning: qualitative reasoning, analogical processing, probabilistic reasoning, and the society of mind. We assess their strengths and weaknesses and discuss their relationships to the event calculus.
Keywords
Commonsense reasoning
Event calculus
Reasoning about action and change
Qualitative reasoning
Analogical processing
Probabilistic reasoning
The society of mind
This book uses the event calculus for commonsense reasoning, which is based on predicate logic. Why logic? What about other approaches to commonsense reasoning? In this chapter, we review ...
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