Name: inference on the low level (in English)
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Author: leitgeb
ISBN: 9781402024924

portada inference on the low level (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

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Author

leitgeb

Language

English

Pages

384

ISBN

1402024924

ISBN13

9781402024924

Synopsis "inference on the low level (in English)"

this monograph provides a new account of justified inference as a cognitive process. in contrast to the prevailing tradition in epistemology, the focus 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. goldmans reliability account of justified belief. this text will be of interest to epistemologists and logicians, to all computer scientists who work on nonmonotonic reasoning and neural networks, and to cognitive scientists.