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A rational agent (artificial or otherwise) residing in a complex changing environment must gather information perceptually, update that information as the world changes, and combine that information with causal information to reason about the changing world. Using the system of defeasible reasoning that is incorporated into the OSCAR architecture for rational agents (Pollock 1995 and 1995a), a set of reason-schemas will be proposed for enabling an agent to perform some of the requisite reasoning. Along the way, solutions will be proposed for the Frame Problem and the Yale Shooting Problem. The principles and reasoning described below have all been implemented in OSCAR.
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Pollock, J.L. (1996). Reason in a changing world. In: Gabbay, D.M., Ohlbach, H.J. (eds) Practical Reasoning. FAPR 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1085. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61313-7_96
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