Veracity and Convincingness: Sources of Plausibility for Decision Making and Situation Management

This paper explores the options for calculating the measures of veracity of statements and convincingness of reasoning. This is one approach for handling plausibility and it is important in systems that support or (autonomously) execute decision making for situation management. An unexpected and peculiar non-unity was discovered between the measure of correctness of inference steps and the measure of veracity of the statements used in the implementation of those inference steps, which shows that the convincingness of reasoning may not in itself guarantee veracious results.