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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Philosophy of Science

Background:

  • Reasoning involves deriving new knowledge from existing representations.
  • Representations of knowledge evolve during reasoning, not solely through addition.
  • The impact of reasoning on knowledge representation has been overlooked in AI and cognitive science.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight the significance of representational change as a side effect of reasoning.
  • To analyze Imre Lakatos's work on mathematical methodology evolution as a case study.
  • To introduce and validate a computational system for automating representational change.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of Imre Lakatos's rational reconstruction of mathematical methodology.
  • Description of the abduction, belief revision, and conceptual change (ABC) theory repair system.
  • Demonstration of the ABC system's capability for automating representational change.

Main Results:

  • Human reasoning frequently modifies existing knowledge representations.
  • The ABC system effectively automates the process of representational change.
  • The ABC system shows promise for repairing faulty knowledge representations across various applications.

Conclusions:

  • Representational change is a crucial, yet understudied, aspect of reasoning.
  • The ABC system offers a computational approach to address representational evolution in AI.
  • Automating representational change has broad implications for cognitive artificial intelligence.