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WHAT IS COMMON SENSE?

Understanding common sense capability is now a hot area of research in artificial intelligence, but there is not yet any consensus. We will try to divide common sense capability into common sense knowledge and common sense reasoning, but even this cannot be made firm. Namely, what one man builds as a reasoning method into his program, another can express as a fact using a richer ontology. However, the latter can have problems in handling in a good way the generality he has introduced.



John McCarthy
Sun May 12 13:27:44 PDT 1996