Read Aloud Stop Reading Symbolic reasoning, also known as logic-based reasoning or deductive reasoning, is a type of reasoning in which conclusions are drawn from a set of facts or premises using logical rules of inference. In symbolic reasoning, knowledge is represented in the form of symbols and relationships among them, such as predicates, variables, and logical operators. Symbolic reasoning involves a set of rules for manipulating symbols to derive new conclusions from existing knowledge. This process of reasoning can be thought of as a step-by-step deduction of new knowledge from old knowledge. The rules of inference in symbolic reasoning are based on the principles of formal logic, which are based on a set of axioms and rules for deriving new statements from the existing ones. Symbolic reasoning is widely used in artificial intelligence for various tasks such as expert systems, natural language processing, and theorem proving. Expert systems use symbolic reasonin...