title: Notes on "Epistemology of a Rule-based Expert System" creator: Clancey, William J. subject: Artificial Intelligence subject: Epistemology description: In the 1970s, we conceived of a rule explanation as supplying the causal and social context that justifies a rule, an objective documentation for why a rule is correct. Today we would call such descriptions post-hoc design rationales, not proving the rulesÂ’ correctness, but providing a means for later interpreting why the rule was written and facilitating later improvements. date: 1993 type: Journal (Paginated) type: PeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://cogprints.org/292/1/126.htm identifier: Clancey, William J. (1993) Notes on "Epistemology of a Rule-based Expert System". [Journal (Paginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/292/