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In this paper, some aspects of the human reasoning process, such as commonsense knowledge, uncertainty and approximate reasoning are discussed. A new way to approach these concepts — the point of view of agreement — and the relationships among them are addressed. It is shown that the concept of agreement provides a framework for the development of a formal and sound explanation for concepts (e.g. fuzzy sets) which lack formal semantics. Based on the notion of agreement, a multi-valued logic — logic of agreement — that has been proved to be sound, is then presented.
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Gustódio, L.M.M., Pinto-Ferreira, C.A. (1995). Agreement: A logical approach to approximate reasoning. In: Pinto-Ferreira, C., Mamede, N.J. (eds) Progress in Artificial Intelligence. EPIA 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 990. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60428-6_37
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