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Reasoning and Background knowledge| old_uid | 14107 |
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| title | Reasoning and Background knowledge |
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| start_date | 2014/06/05 |
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| schedule | 11h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | In deductive reasoning, the premises are assumed to be true. However, human reasoning is affected by its contents and contexts. Then it would be essential to incorporate the relevant background knowledge derived from the long-term memory (LTM) during processing information. We know that everything around us are uncertain in greater or lesser degree. In this talk, I will introduce some experimental results using conditionals and causal reasoning to show how background knowledge influence on our reasoning. The incorporation of knowledge, however, demands cognitive resource and time. The fastness of reasoning is sometimes incompatible with the exactitude. To control an excessive retrieval of LTM should be an important factor for pragmatic intelligence. Secondly, I will talk about a possible heuristic mechanism to suppress unnecessary retrieval during reasoning. |
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| responsibles | Baratgin |
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