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Week-12 Lecture-24
Week-12 Lecture-24
Biconditional ⇔ (if and only if) The sentence W1,3 ⇔ ¬W2,2 is a biconditional.
Some books write this as ‘ ≡ ‘.
► A BNF (Backus-Naur Form) grammar of sentences in propositional logic, along with operator precedencies, from
highest to lowest. See textbook page 1060 to get familiar with BNF.
► Semantics define the rules for determining the truth of a sentence with respect to a particular model.
► A model simply fixes the truth value – true or false – for every proposition symbol.
► For example;
if the sentences in the knowledge base make use of the proposition symbols P1,2, P2,2, and P3,1, then one possible
model is
Inference by
Enumeration
Logical
Equivalence
Validity and
Satisfiability
► Syntax
► Semantics
► A simple knowledge-base
► Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig, 3rd edition,