Consistent Tri-directional Reasoning with Human Concepts
Eugene P. van Someren · 2012
this article, we present a reasoning system that is able to reason with human concepts, by using fuzzy sets to represent these concepts. Moreover, the presented reasoning system is able to reason forward (deduction) and backward (abduction) as well as learn from examples (induction). Most other reasoning theories only consider one reasoning form, however, in our view, the three reasoning forms must be considered simultaneously [1]. As is illustrated in Figure 1, each threesome of cause, effect and corresponding rule-strength makes up three