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Table of Contents

Praise for Commonsense Reasoning

Foreword to the First Edition

Why commonsense reasoning?

Intended audience

Material covered

Supplemental materials

Text and figure acknowledgments

About the Author

Acknowledgments to the First Edition

Acknowledgments to Second Edition

New to the Second Edition

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 What is commonsense reasoning?

1.2 Key issues of commonsense reasoning

1.3 Brief history of commonsense reasoning

1.4 The event calculus

Bibliographic notes

Part I: Foundations

Chapter 2: The Event Calculus

2.1 First-order logic

2.2 Event calculus basics

2.3 Event calculus axiomatizations

2.4 Reification

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