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           <p><em>Originally posted on 4/21/2006 by John De Oliveira</em></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve often heard that complaint when I describe that Cyc uses deduction to do reasoning. That&#8217;s not how people think. First of all, I don&#8217;t want to claim that Cyc &#8220;thinks&#8221; at all, but sometimes its expedient to use expressions like that.</p>
<p>As for how people think, who knows? There&#8217;s a lot of research i