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Neural Diagrammatic Reasoning
… to measure human fluid intelligence. Mechanised reasoning systems typically encode diagrams into symbolic representations that can be easily processed with rule-based expert systems. This relies on human experts to define the framework of diagram-to-symbol mapping and the set of rules to reason …
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Knowing Better, Reasoning Together
<p>We take ourselves to have some knowledge about what’s right and wrong to do. But how easy is this knowledge to get? In the first two chapters of this dissertation I argue for the novel conclusion that it is harder to have moral knowledge than non-moral knowledge due to the fact that moral …
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Intensional reasoning about knowledge
… foundations of a formal system for propositional reasoning about knowledge. The semantics of every meaningful expression in the system is fully determined by its intension, the set of complexes in which the expression is confirmed. The knowledge system is based on three zeroth-order theories of …
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Infants' reasoning about animals
… this question. At issue is whether biological reasoning develops from earlier forms of reasoning, such as physical and psychological reasoning, or whether from a young age children reason about animals biologically. If there is a core biological domain, it may have its origins in infancy, and …
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Internalism and armchair reasoning
In this thesis, I try to answer some basic questions about the a priori. Namely, what is it supposed to be? Should we believe in its existence? And is it important? Chapter One, "The Problem of Forgotten Evidence," sets the stage. I introduce the distinction between internalism and externalism, …
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Story-enabled hypothetical reasoning
… I develop a story-enabled hypothetical reasoning system that models several high-level human abilities, including judging actions in terms of moral alternatives, contextualizing stories by considering what could have otherwise happened, and deliberating about personality to decide what …
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Probability, explanation, and reasoning
Three topics are discussed concerning the application probability and explanation to the confirmation of theories. The first concerns the debate over prediction versus accommodation. I argue that we typically have reason to be more confident of a theory given that it was constructed independently …
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Planning with hypothetical reasoning
… by a causal theory and based on hypothetical reasoning is constructed and discussed. The task is approached from the fundamentals of time and event logics, and causality, resulting in a planner suitable for modeling a wide variety of realistic problem domains, and capable of reasoning in an …
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Exploring students’ patterns of reasoning
… we investigated the quality of students’ reasoning and explored the relationship between sophistication of reasoning and the degree to which the courses were considered inquiry oriented. To probe students’ reasoning, we developed open-ended written content questions with the distinguishing …
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Pragmatic factors of deontic reasoning
… is concerned with pragmatic factors of deontic reasoning, namely scale of violation, aggravating and mitigating circumstances and power of source. Nine experiments are reported investigating deontic reasoning and judgement revision. Experiment 1 established scale of violation as a modifying …
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Belief Change in Reasoning Agents
… As another important research area in AI, reasoning about actions mainly studies the problem of representing and reasoning about effects of actions. These two research fields are closely related and apply a common underlying principle, that is, an agent should change its beliefs (knowledge) …
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Applying qualitative reasoning to finance
Qualitative reasoning has traditionally been applied in the domain of physical systems, where there are well established and understood laws governing the behaviour of each `component' in the system. Such application has shown that it is possible to produce models which can be used for explaining …
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Reasoning about leadership in infancy
Three experiments investigated infants’ understanding of authority-based asymmetrical relations and in particular asked whether infants possess expectations about how leaders will act towards subordinates. I presented infants with live events involving interactions between three puppets of the same …
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Local Reasoning for Stateful Programs
… by assignment. The main theme of the thesis is reasoning about stateful programs. In fact, for the past 30 years, significant efforts have been made for obtaining good reasoning principles to ensure that such programs work correctly. However, reasoning techniques developed so far often result in …
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Gauthier, Stevenson, and Practical Reasoning
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T17:07:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7000823.pdf: 6876052 bytes, checksum: 4b51ead9664a7f64c6556bb8d63bdb8e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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Infants' reasoning about collision events
The present research investigated young infants' understanding of events in which a moving object collides with a stationary object. In the first set of experiments, 2.5-month-old infants were presented with collision and no-collision events. In the collision events, a cylinder rolled down a ramp …
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Hierarchical reasoning in the brain
… Understanding the neural mechanism of this reasoning behavior is essential for consequential applications in brain sciences. In this thesis, I address hierarchical reasoning at three levels of behavior, neural circuit, and computational models. First, I developed behavioral experiments to …
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Automated reasoning about classical mechanics
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.
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