SOME PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS FROM THE STANDPOINT OF ARTIFICIAL ...

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SOME PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS FROM THE STANDPOINT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE John McCarthy and Patrick J. Hayes Computer Science Department Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 1969 1 Introduction A computer program capable of acting intelligently in the world must have a general representation of the world in terms of which its inputs are inter- preted. Designing such a program requires commitments about what knowl- edge is and how it is obtained.

• particular representation
• rule by rule within a system
• general theories
• artificial intelligence
• computer program
• representation
• world
• knowledge