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negation as failure: a standalone construct

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Knowledge representation

the inference rule that concludes a statement is false when every attempt to prove it from the database fails.

In knowledge representation, negation as failure refers to the inference rule that concludes a statement is false when every attempt to prove it from the database fails. This meaning comes from Clark (1978) in Logic and Data Bases.[1]

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failure4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs inference3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs knowledge6 fields · 12 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Clark, K. L. (1978). Negation as Failure. In Logic and Data Bases (pp. 293-322). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3384-5_11

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