explicitness (knowledge representation)

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Ideally it should be possible to examine explicitly both the underlying facts and rules of a form of knowledge representation and also the paths of reasoning it follows. That is being able to precisely know what is being reasoned about and why inferences or decisions have come about. This is closely related to clarity nd explainable AI.

Used in Chap. 2: pages 14, 16, 19, 20, 21