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Freedom and (theoretical) reason
Synthese, 2014In a recent series of papers, Matthias Steup has defended doxastic voluntarism against longstanding objections. Many of his arguments center on the following conditional: if we accept a compatibilist notion of voluntary control, then, in most instances, belief-formation is voluntary and doxastic voluntarism the correct view.
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An Information Theoretic Approach To Approximate Reasoning
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2005In traditional geometric modeling, it is common to assume that models of objects created are complete and correct. Unfortunately in real life robots and other autonomous machines may have only uncer- tain knowledge of only a portion of an object's geom- etry and therefore we need to be able to create object models that are incomplete and uncertain ...
Susan N. Gottschlich, Harry E. Stephanou
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Decision-theoretic case-based reasoning
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans, 1996We describe a decision-theoretic methodology for case-based reasoning in diagnosis and troubleshooting applications. The system utilizes a special-structure Bayesian network to represent diagnostic cases, with nodes representing issues, causes, and symptoms.
John S. Breese, David Heckerman
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Practical reasons, theoretical reasons, and permissive and prohibitive balancing
Synthese, 2022Philosophers have often noted a contrast between practical and theoretical reasons when it comes to cases involving equally balanced reasons. When there are strong practical reasons for A-ing, and equally strong practical reasons for some incompatible option, B-ing, the agent is permitted to make an arbitrary choice between them, having sufficient ...
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PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF THEORETICAL REASONING
2004AbstractThis article distinguishes between two uses of the term “logic”: as referring either to the theory of implication or to the theory of reasoning, which are quite distinct. Reasoning is a process that can modify intentions and beliefs. To a first approximation, theoretical reasoning is concerned with what to believe and practical reasoning is ...
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A situation-theoretic account of nonmonotonic reasoning
Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 1998Situation theory in the sense of Barwise and Perry (1983) and nonmonotonic reasoning have been relatively disparate research programs in AI, the former focusing on computational approaches to natural language processing while the latter has been extensively used as a basic architecture for rational agents. The aim of the present paper is to suggest one
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A Set-Theoretic Approach to ABox Reasoning Services
2017In this paper we consider the most common ABox reasoning services for the description logic \(\mathcal {DL}\langle \mathsf {4LQS}^{\mathsf{R},\!\times }\rangle (\mathbf {D})\) (\(\mathcal {DL}_{\mathbf {D}}^{4,\!\times }\), for short) and prove their decidability via a reduction to the satisfiability problem for the set-theoretic fragment \(\mathsf ...
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Theoretical Reason and the Role of Ideas
2021This chapter seeks to connect Kant’s remarks on systematic unity in the Architectonic to his observations on the legitimate use of ideas in the Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic. It analyses the theoretical role of ideas and their relation to the concepts of the understanding, as well as their relevance for the link between logical and ...
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