text_combined: yrlpgtxaaqitsinghuaorgcn think paradox due information lost inference process information losing may big problem machine decision making interesting topics thanks lot best regards chenghui cai phd student lab intelligent systems controls lisc duke university replyto faqengrorstedu subject uai paradox datetue 12 jul 2005 154810 0700 consider following line reasoning let p proposition ronald born new york p infer q ronald born united states q infer r possible ronald born new jersey hand p infer possible ronald born new jersey arrived contradiction wrong note answer question familiarity modal logic needed lotfi zadeh professor graduate school computer science division department electrical engineering computer sciences university california berkeley ca 94720 1776 director berkeley initiative soft computing bisc teloffice 510 6424959 uai mailing list wed 06 aug 2008 223729 0800 uai paradox