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Computer Science studies the possibility of mechanizing reasoning, an activity of the human brain often confused with thinking, but more or less distinguished from guessing. This paper is devoted to considering, at not too much length, the links between thinking, guessing and reasoning.
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Trillas, E. (2023). A Discourse on Guessing and Reasoning. In: Lopez-Garcia, P., Gallagher, J.P., Giacobazzi, R. (eds) Analysis, Verification and Transformation for Declarative Programming and Intelligent Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13160. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31476-6_14
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