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The Structures of Everyday Life Agre, Philip E. This note descends from a talk I gave at the AI Lab's Revolving Seminar series in November 1984. I offer it as an informal introduction to some work I've been doing over the last year on common sense reasoning. Four themes wander in and out. 1) Computation provides an observation vocabulary for introspection. With a little work, you can learn to exhume your models of everyday activities. This method can provide empirical grounding for computati...