On the representation of premise-based reasoning
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v26i2.10169Keywords:
Conjecture, hypothesis, speculation, vague predicates, fuzzy sets.Abstract
This paper deals with a new way of approaching the premise-based reasoning, suggesting that reasoning is conjecturing or refuting and that conjecturing is to figure out what is hidden in the premises, explaining them or speculating from them. Next, the role of fuzzy sets to represent the imprecise meaning characteristic of ordinary reasoning is addressed, showing the membership function as a kind of approximation to the extent to which an object satisfies the property denoted by the vague predicate. Finally, some limitations of the formalisms of the common-sense reasoning are addressed.
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