Agenda Relevance: A Study in Formal Pragmatics
：A Study in Formal Pragmatics
( Volume 1 )
Publication subTitle ：A Study in Formal Pragmatics
Publication series ：Volume 1
Author： Gabbay Dov M.;Woods John
Publisher： Elsevier Science
Publication year： 2003
E-ISBN: 9780080526874
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780444513854
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780444513854
Subject： TP Automation Technology , Computer Technology;TP3 Computers
Language： ENG
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Description
Agenda Relevance is the first volume in the authors' omnibus investigation of
the logic of practical reasoning, under the collective title, A Practical Logic
of Cognitive Systems. In this highly original approach, practical reasoning is
identified as reasoning performed with comparatively few cognitive assets,
including resources such as information, time and computational capacity. Unlike
what is proposed in optimization models of human cognition, a practical reasoner
lacks perfect information, boundless time and unconstrained access to
computational complexity. The practical reasoner is therefore obliged to be a
cognitive economizer and to achieve his cognitive ends with considerable
efficiency. Accordingly, the practical reasoner avails himself of various
scarce-resource compensation strategies. He also possesses neurocognitive
traits that abet him in his reasoning tasks. Prominent among these is the
practical agent's striking (though not perfect) adeptness at evading irrelevant
information and staying on task. On the approach taken here, irrelevancies are
impediments to the attainment of cognitive ends. Thus, in its most basic sense,
relevant information is cognitively helpful information. Information can then be
said to be relevant for a practical reasoner to the extent that it advances or
closes some cognitive agenda of his. The book explores this idea with a
conceptual detail and nuance not seen the standard sema
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