Mental models of physical causality
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The aim of this paper is to present a cognitive model of causal reasoning about the psysical world and a related computational system. The cognitive model is based on the theory of mental models and on two main assumptions, the assumption of reasoning by examples and the assumption of causality by contact. The computational model has been developed using an Extended version of the Qualitative Processes Theory (EQPT); the use of the EQPT as a qualitative simulator allows to represent and treat the various commonsense physical domains.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007