文档介绍：Artificial Intelligence
and Scientific Method
DONALD GILLIES
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method
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To Grazia and Mark
Preface
Remarkable advances have taken place in the field of artificial intel-
ligence (AI) in the last twenty to thirty years. One of the aims of
this book is to introduce the reader to some of these. It should be
stressed that I am not