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backchain

verb

Etymology

From back + chain.

  1. derived from *kat-✻
  2. derived from catēna
  3. derived from chaine
  4. inherited from cheyne
  5. compounded as backchain — “back + chain”

Definitions

  1. To perform inferences, starting with a list of goals (or a hypothesis) and working…

    To perform inferences, starting with a list of goals (or a hypothesis) and working backwards from the consequent to the antecedent.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for backchain. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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