STEP-LOGICS: AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO LIMITED REASONING

TO LIMITED REASONING Jennifer Drapkin and Donald Perlis University of Maryland Department of Computer Science College Park, Maryland 20742 USA (301) 454-2002 Abstract: We propose that a new kind of logical study is appropriate to agents engaged in commonsense reasoning, namely, one that focuses on the steps of reasoning at any giv en time rather than the collection of all conclusions ever reached.