creators_name: Clancey, William J. type: journalp datestamp: 1998-05-05 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:48 metadata_visibility: show title: Notes on "Epistemology of a Rule-based Expert System" ispublished: pub subjects: comp-sci-art-intel subjects: phil-epist full_text_status: public keywords: expert systems, rule-based, MYCIN, NEOMYCIN, explanation systems, design rationale abstract: 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 date_type: published publication: Artificial Intelligence volume: 59 number: 1-2 pagerange: 191-204 refereed: TRUE citation: Clancey, William J. (1993) Notes on "Epistemology of a Rule-based Expert System". [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/292/1/126.htm