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Learning Based on Logic

KEYWORDS

explanation-based generalization

goal concept

domain theory

operationality criterion

Horn clause logic

unification

analogy

learning by analogy

partial match

maximal partial match

nonmonotonic logic

default reasoning

truth maintenance system

belief

support list

justification

assumption-based truth maintenance system

set of hypotheses

Logical inference using knowledge represented by predicate logic and inference rules does not seem to generate any new information or have anything to do with learning. However, when we try to understand the structure that is buried in a large amount of complicated knowledge, we can regard a system for organizing knowledge by logical inference as generating new knowledge that ...

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