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What is the main practical objection to logical agents?

  • A.Logic cannot represent relations between several objects
  • B.Real knowledge is uncertain and defeasible rather than categorical
  • C.Logical formulas cannot be stored in a computer efficiently
  • D.No sound inference procedure exists for any useful logic

Answer: B

Almost everything an agent believes is probable rather than certain and admits exceptions, which classical logic handles badly and probability theory handles naturally. That objection drove the field's shift towards probabilistic methods. Storage, soundness and relations are not the difficulty. An approach whose limitation lies in the character of the knowledge rather than in the machinery is one that must be supplemented rather than optimised.

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