There is no statutory requirement that formal logic be adhered to during examination of patent claims. Examiners and patent practitioners are free to use a wide variety of discussion and argument ...

when thinking about logical agents, we imagine that the agent has a knowledge base (KB for short) that contains logical sentences that describe the state of the world you could think of a KB as a ...

Epistemic logic constitutes a rigorous framework for representing and reasoning about knowledge and belief. Central to this discipline is the formalisation of how agents acquire, retain and attribute ...