First Order Logic: Logical Inference CHAPTER 12 First Order Logic: Logical Inference
Propositional Resolution
Propositional Resolution (cont)
Soundness and Completeness Soundness: if a sound procedure derives a sentence β from α, it must actually be entailed by α Completeness: if a sentence β is actually entailed by α, then it will eventually be derived from α by a complete procedure
Universal instantiation (UI)
Existential instantiation (EI)
Reduction to prop. inference
Problems with propositionalizati
Unification
Properties of forward chaining
Efficiency of forward chaining
Properties of backward chaining
Logic programming: Prolog
Resolution: brief summary
Conversion to CNF
Conversion to CNF contd.