June 2004
Beginner to intermediate
381 pages
10h 48m
English
CHAPTER 4RESOLUTION
In Chapter 3, we examined how FOL could be used to represent knowledge about a simple application domain. We also showed how logical reasoning could be used to discover facts that were only implicit in a given knowledge base. All of our deductive reasoning, however, was done by hand, and relatively informally. In this chapter, we will examine in detail how to automate a deductive reasoning procedure.
At the knowledge level, the specification for an idealized deductive procedure is clear: Given a knowledge base KB and a sentence α, we would like a procedure that can determine whether or not KB
α also, if β[x1,…, xn] is a formula ...
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