Techreport,
Contextual Reasoning
9211--20. Trento, Italy, (1992)
Abstract
It is widely agreed on that most cognitive processes are contextual in the sense
that they depend on the environment, or context, inside which they are carried on.
Even concentrating on the issue of contextuality in reasoning, many different notions
of context can be found in the Artificial Intelligence literature. Our intuition
is that reasoning is usually performed on a subset of the global knowledge base.
The notion of context is used as a means of formalizing this idea of
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