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COGSCI
2004
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13 years 9 months ago
Children's causal inferences from indirect evidence: Backwards blocking and Bayesian reasoning in preschoolers
Previous research suggests that children can infer causal relations from patterns of events. However, what appear to be cases of causal inference may simply reduce to children rec...
David M. Sobel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik
CHK
1999
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13 years 9 months ago
Gypsy Reason: Niklas Luhmann's Sociological Enlightenment
: Niklas Luhmann died in November 1998. He had been elaborating his theory of the society for more than thirty years which has been well received in many quarters of society in the...
Dirk Baecker
KR
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Historical Remarks on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Especially Circumscription
Humans have always done nonmonotonic reasoning, but rigorous monotonic reasoning in reaching given conclusions has been deservedly more respected and admired. Euclid contains the ...
John McCarthy
CVPR
2007
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
Bilattice-based Logical Reasoning for Human Detection
The capacity to robustly detect humans in video is a critical component of automated visual surveillance systems. This paper describes a bilattice based logical reasoning approach...
Vinay D. Shet, Jan Neumann, Visvanathan Ramesh, La...
IGPL
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
On Ignorance and Contradiction Considered as Truth-Values
A critical view of the alleged significance of Belnap four-valued logic for reasoning under inconsistent and incomplete information is provided. The difficulty lies in the confusi...
Didier Dubois