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Conditionals, Infeasible Worlds, and Reasoning with System W
Proceedings of the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2023 The recently introduced notion of an inductive inference operator captures the process of completing a given conditional belief base to an inference relation.
Jonas Haldimann +3 more
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Active inductive inference in children and adults: A constructivist perspective.
Cognition, 2023 A defining aspect of being human is an ability to reason about the world by generating and adapting ideas and hypotheses. Here we explore how this ability develops by comparing children's and adults' active search and explicit hypothesis generation ...
N. Bramley, Fei Xu
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Genericity and Inductive Inference
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2022 We are often justified in acting on the basis of evidential confirmation. I argue that this is because inductive inference supports belief in non-quantificational—or generic—generalizations, rather than universally quantified generalizations.
H. Schiller
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Philosophies, 2021 Despite their centrality to the scientific enterprise, both the nature of scientific variables and their relation to inductive inference remain obscure.
Benjamin C. Jantzen
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The Problem of Analogical Inference in Inductive Logic [PDF]
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2016 We consider one problem that was largely left open by Rudolf Carnap in his work on inductive logic, the problem of analogical inference. After discussing some previous attempts to solve this problem, we propose a new solution that is based on the ideas ...
Simon M. Huttegger
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Children are exposed to anthropomorphized animals in a variety of contexts. The literature that analyzes this phenomenon suggests that exposure to anthropomorphic media may strengthen children’s anthropocentric representation of animals.
Andrzej Tarłowski, Eliza Rybska
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Coaxioms: flexible coinductive definitions by inference systems [PDF]
Logical Methods in Computer Science, 2020 We introduce a generalized notion of inference system to support more flexible interpretations of recursive definitions. Besides axioms and inference rules with the usual meaning, we allow also coaxioms, which are, intuitively, axioms which can only be ...
Francesco Dagnino
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Proceedings of the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2022 Many modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems like human-interacting smart devices or expert systems adapt to specific users' information processes but the underlying AI methods commonly lack a theory of mind.
Marco Wilhelm +4 more
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Naturalizing Logic: How Knowledge of Mechanisms Enhances Inductive Inference
Philosophies, 2021 This paper naturalizes inductive inference by showing how scientific knowledge of real mechanisms provides large benefits to it. I show how knowledge about mechanisms contributes to generalization, inference to the best explanation, causal inference, and
Paul Thagard
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Subjectivity in Inductive Inference [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 This paper examines circumstances under which subjectivity enhances the effectiveness of inductive reasoning. We consider a game in which Fate chooses a data generating process and agents are characterized by inference rules that may be purely objective (or data-based) or may incorporate subjective considerations. The basic intuition is that agents who
Itzhak Gilboa, Larry Samuelson
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