What About Mozart? What About Murder? Reasoning from Cases, H.S. Becker

Reasoning about What to Plan

Agents plan in order to improve their performance. However, planning takes time and consumes resources that may in fact degrade an agents performance. Ideally, an agent should only plan when the expected improvement outweighs the expected cost and no resources should be expended on making this decision. To do this, an agent would have to be omniscient. The problem of how to approximate this ide...

Reasoning dynamically about what one says

In this paper we make SDRT’s glue logic for computing logical form dynamic. This allows a dialogue agent to anticipate what the update of the semantic representation of the dialogue would be after his next contribution, including the effects of the rhetorical moves that he is contemplating performing next. This is a pre-requisite for planning what to say next. We make the glue logic dynamic by ...

What is Special about Children’s Deontic Reasoning?

The assumption underlying the present investigation is that comprehension and reasoning from deontic premises, as well as comprehension and reasoning from factual premises, depend on mental models, and these models predict what conclusions individuals are likely to draw. Experiment 1 (48 children aged 9-11 years) confirmed the prediction that children’s comprehension of deontic assertions, like...

What About Negation in Spatial Reasoning?

How do we reason about spatial descriptions? In recent years a lot of research has been investigated in order to determine factors of complexity in spatial relational reasoning. Several factors like the number of models, the wording of conclusion or relational complexity have been determined. Any of these factors effected reasoning. But the literature focused solemnly on positive premises. Nega...

What about Memory, Consciousness, Recall, and Awareness in Anesthesia?