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If I see a glass begin to fall from a shelf, I can infer that the glass will probably break, by applying world knowledge such as:
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When things fall, they collide with whatever is below them.
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Glasses are fragile; floors are hard.
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When a fragile thing and a hard thing collide, the fragile thing often breaks.
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Kaplan, A.N., Schubert, L.K. (1999). Simulative Inference in a Computational Model of Belief. In: Bunt, H., Muskens, R. (eds) Computing Meaning. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 73. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4231-1_10
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