Learning Propositional Logic From Scratch
Paper in proceeding, 2014

We present a computational model for developing intelligent agents that are able to reason in multiple symbolic domains. The agents have deductive and inductive reasoning abilities. The deductive mechanism is based on a simple cognitive model with bounded cognitive resources. The main learning mechanism is a formalization of Occam’s razor. Agents constructed in our model can learn generalized knowledge from concrete examples. For example, an agent can learn elementary arithmetic and propositional logic, and then compute correct answers to previously unseen questions such as “what is 27*9?” and “is P∨(P→Q) a tautology?”. We illustrate the learning process in the case of propositional logic, where an agent first learns the syntax and then some basic logical laws. The performance of this agent beats average human scores in terms of accuracy when tested on tautologies used in an experiment reported in [16].

multi-domain agents

propositional logic

logical reasoning

Author

Abdul Rahim Nizamani

University of Gothenburg

Claes Strannegård

University of Gothenburg

Chalmers, Applied Information Technology (Chalmers)

The 28th Annual Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS). May 22-23, 2014, Stockholm

1650-3740 (eISSN)

Subject Categories

Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)

Computer and Information Science

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10/7/2017