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Indexical Banana 23. sij
Are people silly for not having coherent, non-contradictory beliefs, or is it silly to expect intelligent people to have global, universal, coherent beliefs about messy reality?
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Jennifer RM
The Cyc Project turned common sense into predicate logic... ...and found it necessary to create lots and lots of "microtheories" (locally consistent, mutually inconsistent) because anything vaguely large acquired contradictions.
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Indexical Banana 24. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @almostlikethat
looks like douglas lenat was at xerox parc in the early 80s - lucy suchman and other EM people were around then, I wonder if it influenced him?
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Indexical Banana 24. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @almostlikethat
(EM=ethnomethodology sorry)
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St. Rev ☯️🏴😻 24. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @almostlikethat @literalbanana
An enormous amount of work in mathematics studies problems like this, particularly in topology and geometry, eg
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St. Rev ☯️🏴😻 24. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @almostlikethat @literalbanana
The classical example in the first image there: What's the square root of a complex number? Note that for real numbers, there are two choices, eg sqrt(4) could = 2 or -2, but we have a convention of choosing the positive root.
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