[mod.ai] Seminar - Commonsense Reasoning about Solid Objects

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Date: 1 Dec 1986  13:57 EST (Mon)
From: Daniel S. Weld <WELD%OZ.AI.MIT.EDU at XX.LCS.MIT.EDU>

ERNEST DAVIS

A Logical Framework for Commonsense Reasoning about Solid Objects

When a small die is dropped inside a large funnel, it comes out
the bottom. How do you know that? I will discuss why this problem is
harder than it looks; what kinds of knowledge could be used to solve it;
and how this knowledge can be expressed formally.



Friday, December 5; 1:00pm; 8th Floor Playroom