[Inquiry] Re: Introduction to Inquiry Driven Systems

[Jon Awbrey]

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INTRO.  Note 25

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2.2.3.1.  Learning

Rules in a knowledge base, as far as their effective
content goes, can be obtained by any mode of inference.

For example, a rule like:

   Rule:  B => A,  Just Before it rains, the Air is cool,

is usually induced from a consideration of many past events,
in a manner that can be rationally reconstructed as follows:

   Case:  C => B,  In Certain events, it is just Before it rains,
   Fact:  C => A,  In Certain events, the Air is cool,
   Rule:  B => A,  Just Before it rains, the Air is cool.

However, the same proposition could also be abduced as an explanation
of a singular occurrence or deduced as a conclusion of a prior theory.

Jon Awbrey

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