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Until the end of the 20th century many logicians believed that theorem provers for first-order logic will be the major component of intelligent agents. Almost all successful modern AI applications however use different formalisms. This is due to some severe problems with first-order logic that we will explain in this chapter.
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Just this case is especially important in practice, because if I already know that a statement is true, I no longer need a prover.
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The formal execution of this and the following simple proof may be left to the reader (Exercise 4.3 on page 73).
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Ertel, W. (2017). Limitations of Logic. In: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58487-4_4
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