Abstract
International Center for Computational Logic (ICCL), TU Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany Abstract: The tendency to accept or reject arguments based on own beliefs or prior knowledge rather than on the reasoning process is called the belief-bias effect. A psychological syllogistic reasoning task shows this phenomenon, wherein participants were asked whether they accept or reject a given syllogism. We discuss one case which is commonly assumed to be believable but not logically valid. By introducing abnormalities, abduction and background knowledge, we model this case under the weak completion semantics. Our formalization reveals new questions about observations and their explanations which might include some relevant prior abductive contextual information concerning some sideeffect. Inspection points, introduced by Pereira and Pinto, allow us to express these definitions syntactically and intertwine them into an operational semantics.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 14th International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, KR 2014 |
Publisher | AAAI Press |
Pages | 653-656 |
Number of pages | 4 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-157735657-8 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2014 |
Event | 14th International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, KR 2014 - Vienna, Austria Duration: 20 Jul 2014 → 24 Jul 2014 |
Conference
Conference | 14th International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, KR 2014 |
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Country/Territory | Austria |
City | Vienna |
Period | 20/07/14 → 24/07/14 |
Keywords
- Abductive reasoning
- Belief-bias effect
- Human reasoning
- Inspection points
- Side-effects