Some Terms, Concepts and Questions

Logic

Proof Deduction
syntax
semantics
truth value
truth table
tautology
contradiction
satisfiable
unsatisfiable, inconsistent

What are the defining or basic features that
define a deductive logic?

 

What is meant by the expressiveness of a logic?

 Proposition Logic
proposition
complex proposition
 How expressive is Propositional Logic?
 First Order Logic
(FOL)
atomic formula
Well formed formula, wff.
Quantification
 How expressive is First Order Logic?
Syntactic Proof
identities
implications
resolution
Decidable, tractable, complete, sound, consistent?
Semantic Proof
 truth tables
Tractable, complete, sound, consistent?

Non-Deductive Inference

Defeasible Inference

Trees, Hierarchies, and Inheritance

domain dependent representation
representation dependent inference
Trees, strings

Relation between domain and special representations?

Relation between domain dependent representations and valid inference?

Non-first Order Knowledge, Exceptions, Default Theory
Negation by Failure
Consistency and Defaults
 Deductive? Monotonic?


Deduction

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