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Stochastic calculus

George Christakos

pp. 301-336

Stochastic reasoning resembles a spider's web: concentric, firm, transparent, and well spun. This is a web that draws into itself all the conceptual elements of integrative problem-solving (IPS). Ideas and thoughts wing towards it, where metaphors flit through the web to become its nourishment. In the light that it casts on the premises (knowledge bases and the agent's prior mental states), the conclusions (problem-solutions and new findings) begin to glow. In this setting, the prime goal of this chapter is to consider the development of a stochastic calculus that is in agreement with the basic conceptual principles of stochastic reasoning discussed in the previous chapter.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9890-0_6

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Christakos, G. (2011). Stochastic calculus, in Integrative problem-solving in a time of decadence, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 301-336.

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