> > I haven't read the PLN book yet (though I downloaded a copy, thanks!), > but at present I don't see why term probabilities are needed... unless > inheritance relations "A inh B" are interpreted as conditional > probabilities "A given B". I am not interpreting them that way-- I am > just treating inheritance as a reflexive and transitive relation that > (for some reason) we want to reason about probabilistically.
Well, one question is whether you want to be able to do inference like A -->B <tv1> |- B -->A <tv2> Doing that without term probabilities is pretty hard... Another interesting approach would be to investigate which of Cox's axioms (for probability) are violated in NARS, in what semantic interpretation, and why... ben ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
