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The logic of decision and action
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This article is published in Philosophical Books.The article was published on 1969-01-01. It has received 382 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Decision analysis & Action (philosophy).read more
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Some philosophical problems from the standpoint of artificial intelligence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the problem of reasoning about whether a strategy will achieve a goal in a deterministic world and present a method to construct a sentence of first-order logic which will be true in all models of certain axioms if and only if a certain strategy can achieve a certain goal.
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Event structure in perception and conception.
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TL;DR: An analysis of how people use event structure in perception, understanding, planning, and action is constructed and an explanation of how multiple sources of information interact in event perception and conception is explained.
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Language and space
TL;DR: In this article, a review describes some recent, unexpected findings concerning variation in spatial language across cultures and places them in the context of the general anthropology of space on the one hand, and theories of spatial cognition in the cognitive sciences on the other.
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Interpretation as abduction
TL;DR: An approach to abductive inference, called “weighted abduction”, that has resulted in a significant simplification of how the problem of interpreting texts is conceptualized, can be combined with the older view of “parsing as deduction” to produce an elegant and thorough integration of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
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Some philosophical problems from the standpoint of artificial intelligence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the problem of reasoning about whether a strategy will achieve a goal in a deterministic world and present a method to construct a sentence of first-order logic which will be true in all models of certain axioms if and only if a certain strategy can achieve a certain goal.
Journal ArticleDOI
Event structure in perception and conception.
Jeffrey M. Zacks,Barbara Tversky +1 more
TL;DR: An analysis of how people use event structure in perception, understanding, planning, and action is constructed and an explanation of how multiple sources of information interact in event perception and conception is explained.
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Interpretation as abduction
TL;DR: In this article, the TACITUS project at SRI developed an approach to abductive inference, called "weighted abduction" that has resulted in a significant simplification of how the problem of interpreting texts is conceptualized.
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Language and space
TL;DR: In this article, a review describes some recent, unexpected findings concerning variation in spatial language across cultures and places them in the context of the general anthropology of space on the one hand, and theories of spatial cognition in the cognitive sciences on the other.