Philosophy of Human Reasoning and its Relevance for Machine Reasoning

Philosophers have been building a theory of human reasoning for over two millennia. At a very high-level, this theory tries to critically examine, very critically, the following process of human reasoning: we acquire knowledge, make observations, and reason about these observations with our previously acquired knowledge to get more knowledge.
Philosophers asked very difficult questions about this process: Where did our a priori knowledge come from? Can we even prove the existence of anything beyond an idea in our mind? What are the different methods we apply to extend our knowledge through…

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