[(Chaotic Logic : Language, Thought, and Reality from the Perspective of Complex Systems Science)] [By (author) Ben Goertzel] published on

by Ben Goertzel

This book describes Probabilistic Logic Networks (PLN), a novel conceptual, mathematical and computational approach to uncertain inference. Going beyond prior probabilistic approaches to uncertain inference, PLN encompasses such ideas as induction, abduction, analogy, fuzziness and speculation, and reasoning about time and causality. The book provides an overview of PLN in the context of other approaches to uncertain inference. Topics addressed in the text basic formalism of PLN knowledge representationthe conceptual interpretation of the terms used in PLNan indefinite probability approach to quantifying uncertainty, providing a general method for calculating the "weight-of-evidence" underlying the conclusions of uncertain inferencespecific PLN inference rules and the corresponding truth-value formulas used to determine the strength of the conclusion of an inference rule from the strengths of the premiseslarge-scale inference strategiesinference using variables indefinite probabilities involving quantifiersinheritance based on properties or patternsthe Novamente Cognition Engine, an application of PLNtemporal and causal logic in PLNResearchers and graduate students in artificial intelligence, computer science, mathematics and cognitive sciences will find this novel perspective on uncertain inference a thought-provoking integration of ideas from a variety of other lines of inquiry.

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Published December 1, 2010