Reasoning is the process of discivering new things from existing knowledge. The three main main types are: deductive reasoning – classic logical reasoning; inductive reasoning – finding patterns in examples; and abductive reasoning – thinking more about the cause-effect processes that gave rise to known facts or observations. Reasoning sysems may need to deal with uncertainty or probabilities as well as fixed facts.
Used in Chap. 1: page 4; Chap. 3: page 25
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