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Fol meaning
Initialism of first-order logic.
Example sentences (15)
The judge had earlier on February 22, granted a tem- porary forfeiture order fol- lowing an ex-parte motion filed by the EFCC seeking to seize 14 properties located in Lagos, Abuja and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Ticket sales for the FOL Spring Tea at the Carnegie will go through March 24.
A persistent rumour that Iqaluit was an emergency landing site for the Space Shuttle is false. citation Iqaluit shared its runway with the Royal Canadian Air Force until the Canadian Forces stopped using Iqaluit as a Forward Operating Location (FOL).
David rejects the unaccustomed armour" (detail of fol. 28r of the 13th century Morgan Bible ).
However, FOL has two drawbacks as a knowledge representation formalism: ease of use and practicality of implementation.
IF-THEN rules provide a subset of FOL but a very useful one that is also very intuitive.
In a FOL system, additional axioms are required to make inferences about the environment (for example, that a block cannot change position unless it's physically moved).
Languages which do not have the complete formal power of FOL can still provide close to the same expressive power with a user interface that is more practical for the average developer to understand.
Shortly after, a more sophisticated parachute was sketched by the polymath Leonardo da Vinci in his Codex Atlanticus (fol. 381v) dated to ca. 1485.
The issue of practicality of implementation is that FOL in some ways is too expressive.
Theoretical limitations mean that a full implementation of FOL is not practical.
The standard that Brachman and most AI researchers use to measure expressive adequacy is usually First Order Logic (FOL).
The ultimate knowledge representation formalism in terms of expressive power and compactness is First Order Logic (FOL).
Thus, a subset of FOL can be both easier to use and more practical to implement.
With FOL it is possible to create statements (e.g. quantification over infinite sets) that would cause a system to never terminate if it attempted to verify them.