%0 Book Section
%1 forbus1988qualitative
%A Forbus, Kenneth D.
%B Exploring Artificial Intelligence
%C San Francisco, California
%D 1988
%I Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, Inc.
%K ai artificial intelligence physics qualitative
%P 239--296
%T Qualitative Physics: Past, Present, and Future
%X Qualitative physics is concerned with representing and reasoning about the physical world. The goal of qualitative physics is to capture both the common-sense knowledge of the person on the street and the tacit knowledge underlying the quantitative knowledge used by engineers and scientists. The area is now a little over ten years old, which, at least measured in the span of AI, is a long time. So it makes sense to step back and try to systematize the work in the field and describe the current state of the art.
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