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Bottom-Up: Derive Everything

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The bottom-up procedure starts from the facts and repeatedly fires any rule whose whole body is established, adding its head — stopping when nothing new can be added.

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Facts in, conclusions out, no questions asked — the procedure is thorough and undirected by design.

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Elsewhere the pair is called forward and backward chaining; this course says bottom-up and top-down, once and forever.