AIMA Artificial Intelligence a modern approch

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Exercise 9.15 [standardize-failure-exercise]

One might suppose that we can avoid the problem of variable conflict in unification during backward chaining by standardizing apart all of the sentences in the knowledge base once and for all. Show that, for some sentences, this approach cannot work. (Hint: Consider a sentence in which one part unifies with another.)

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