Making a definite be interpreted as an indefinite
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Indefinite Reasoning with Definite Rules
In this paper we present a novel explanation of the source of indefinite information in common sense reasoning: Indefinite information arises from reports about the world expressed in terms of concepts that have been defined using only definite rules. Adopting this point of view, we show that first-order logic is insufficiently expressive to handle important examples of common sense reasoning. ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2397-5563,1645-4537
DOI: 10.5334/jpl.109