/** * Conditional deduction or induction, with variable unification * * @param conditional The premise that is an Implication with a Conjunction as condition * @param index The location of the shared term in the condition * @param statement The second premise that is a statement * @param side The location of the shared term in the statement * @param memory Reference to the memory */ private static void conditionalDedIndWithVar( Implication conditional, short index, Statement statement, short side, Memory memory) { CompoundTerm condition = (CompoundTerm) conditional.getSubject(); Term component = condition.componentAt(index); Term component2 = null; if (statement instanceof Inheritance) { component2 = statement; side = -1; } else if (statement instanceof Implication) { component2 = statement.componentAt(side); } if ((component2 != null) && Variable.unify(Symbols.VAR_INDEPENDENT, component, component2, conditional, statement)) { SyllogisticRules.conditionalDedInd(conditional, index, statement, side, memory); } }
/** * Entry point of the inference engine * * @param tLink The selected TaskLink, which will provide a task * @param bLink The selected TermLink, which may provide a belief * @param memory Reference to the memory */ public static void reason(TaskLink tLink, TermLink bLink, Memory memory) { Task task = memory.currentTask; Sentence taskSentence = task.getSentence(); Term taskTerm = (Term) taskSentence.getContent().clone(); // cloning for substitution Term beliefTerm = (Term) bLink.getTarget().clone(); // cloning for substitution Concept beliefConcept = memory.termToConcept(beliefTerm); Sentence belief = null; if (beliefConcept != null) { belief = beliefConcept.getBelief(task); } memory.currentBelief = belief; // may be null if (belief != null) { LocalRules.match(task, belief, memory); } if (!memory.noResult()) { return; } short tIndex = tLink.getIndex(0); short bIndex = bLink.getIndex(0); switch (tLink.getType()) { // dispatch first by TaskLink type case TermLink.SELF: switch (bLink.getType()) { case TermLink.COMPONENT: compoundAndSelf((CompoundTerm) taskTerm, beliefTerm, true, memory); break; case TermLink.COMPOUND: compoundAndSelf((CompoundTerm) beliefTerm, taskTerm, false, memory); break; case TermLink.COMPONENT_STATEMENT: if (belief != null) { SyllogisticRules.detachment(task.getSentence(), belief, bIndex, memory); } break; case TermLink.COMPOUND_STATEMENT: if (belief != null) { SyllogisticRules.detachment(belief, task.getSentence(), bIndex, memory); } break; case TermLink.COMPONENT_CONDITION: if (belief != null) { bIndex = bLink.getIndex(1); SyllogisticRules.conditionalDedInd( (Implication) taskTerm, bIndex, beliefTerm, tIndex, memory); } break; case TermLink.COMPOUND_CONDITION: if (belief != null) { bIndex = bLink.getIndex(1); SyllogisticRules.conditionalDedInd( (Implication) beliefTerm, bIndex, taskTerm, tIndex, memory); } break; } break; case TermLink.COMPOUND: switch (bLink.getType()) { case TermLink.COMPOUND: compoundAndCompound((CompoundTerm) taskTerm, (CompoundTerm) beliefTerm, memory); break; case TermLink.COMPOUND_STATEMENT: compoundAndStatement( (CompoundTerm) taskTerm, tIndex, (Statement) beliefTerm, bIndex, beliefTerm, memory); break; case TermLink.COMPOUND_CONDITION: if (belief != null) { if (beliefTerm instanceof Implication) { SyllogisticRules.conditionalDedInd( (Implication) beliefTerm, bIndex, taskTerm, -1, memory); } else if (beliefTerm instanceof Equivalence) { SyllogisticRules.conditionalAna( (Equivalence) beliefTerm, bIndex, taskTerm, -1, memory); } } break; } break; case TermLink.COMPOUND_STATEMENT: switch (bLink.getType()) { case TermLink.COMPONENT: componentAndStatement( (CompoundTerm) memory.currentTerm, bIndex, (Statement) taskTerm, tIndex, memory); break; case TermLink.COMPOUND: compoundAndStatement( (CompoundTerm) beliefTerm, bIndex, (Statement) taskTerm, tIndex, beliefTerm, memory); break; case TermLink.COMPOUND_STATEMENT: if (belief != null) { // bIndex = bLink.getIndex(1); syllogisms(tLink, bLink, taskTerm, beliefTerm, memory); } break; case TermLink.COMPOUND_CONDITION: if (belief != null) { bIndex = bLink.getIndex(1); if (beliefTerm instanceof Implication) { conditionalDedIndWithVar( (Implication) beliefTerm, bIndex, (Statement) taskTerm, tIndex, memory); } } break; } break; case TermLink.COMPOUND_CONDITION: switch (bLink.getType()) { case TermLink.COMPOUND_STATEMENT: if (belief != null) { // if (beliefTerm instanceof Implication) // TODO adding instanceof test changes results of Example-NAL6-in.txt // TODO maybe put instanceof test within conditionalDedIndWithVar() conditionalDedIndWithVar( (Implication) taskTerm, tIndex, (Statement) beliefTerm, bIndex, memory); } break; } break; } }