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The Logic of Plausible Reasoning: A Core Theory
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The paper presents a core theory of human plausible reasoning based on analysis of people's answers to everyday questions about the world. The theory consists of three parts: a formal representation of plausible inference patterns; such as deductions, inductions, and analogies, that are frequently employed in answering everyday questions; a set of parameters, such as conditional likelihood, typicality, and similarity, that affect the certainty of people's answers to such questions; and a system relating the different plausible inference patterns and the different certainty parameters. This is one of the first attempts to construct a formal theory that addresses both the semantic and parametric aspects of the kind of everyday reasoning that pervades. all of human discourse.
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Self-citationInductive judgments about natural categories
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Metadata
- Authors
- Collins, A., & Michalski, R.
- Venue
- Cognitive Science
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1989-01
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-49
- ISSN
- 0364-0213 (ISSN-L)
- 1551-6709
- OpenAlex
- W2099120848
- Cited by
- 360
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 12.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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