{"pk":30478,"title":"Causal Reasoning About Quantities","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Causality plays an important role in human thinking. Yet we are far from having a complete account of causal reasoning. This paper presents an analysis of causal reasoning about changes in quantities. W e abstract from AI theories of qualitative physics three dimensions along which causal reasoning about quantities may be decomposed. W e then use this framework to make some psychological predictions.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Presented Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tc1f2nq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kenneth","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Forbus","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Illinois","department":""},{"first_name":"Dedre","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gentmer","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Illinois","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1986-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30478/galley/20327/download/"}]}