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  title info:
    title: Inference on the Low Level
    sub title: an Investigation into Deduction, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, and the Philosophy of Cognition
  name:
    name part: Leitgeb, Hannes.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (ix, 386 pages)
  abstract: In contrast to the prevailing tradition in epistemology, the focus in this book is on low-level inferences, i.e., those inferences that we are usually not consciously aware of and that we share with the cat nearby which infers that the bird which she sees picking grains from the dirt, is able to fly. Presumably, such inferences are not generated by explicit logical reasoning, but logical methods can be used to describe and analyze such inferences. Part 1 gives a purely system-theoretic explication of belief and inference. Part 2 adds a reliabilist theory of justification for inference, with a qualitative notion of reliability being employed. Part 3 recalls and extends various systems of deductive and nonmonotonic logic and thereby explains the semantics of absolute and high reliability. In Part 4 it is proven that qualitative neural networks are able to draw justified deductive and nonmonotonic inferences on the basis of distributed representations. This is derived from a soundness/completeness theorem with regard to cognitive semantics of nonmonotonic reasoning. The appendix extends the theory both logically and ontologically, and relates it to A. Goldman's reliability account of justified belief.
  table of contents: From the contents: I: The Explication of Monotonic and Nonmonotonic Inference -- II: The Justification of Monotonic and Nonmonotonic Inference -- III: The Logic of Justified Monotonic and Nonmonotonic Inference -- IV: The Cognition of Justified Monotonic and Nonmonotonic Inference by Low-Level Agents -- V: Appendix.
  note: by Hannes Leitgeb.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy (General)
  subject:
    topic: Genetic epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  classification: BD143-237
  classification: 120
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Applied logic series ; 30
  identifier: 9781402028069 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1402028067 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9789048166695
  identifier: 9048166691
  identifier: 1402028067
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  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 121116
    record change date: 20260420201235.0
    record identifier: in00003567603
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng