It sounds like you need both for AI, certainly there is always a place
for logic. What's "discrete reasoning"?

On 6/18/18, Jim Bromer via AGI <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am wondering about how Discrete Reasoning is different than Logic. I
> assume that Discrete Reasoning could be described, modelled or
> represented by Logic, but as a more practical method, logic would be a
> tool to use with Discrete Reasoning rather than as a representational
> substrate.
> 
> Discrete Reasons and Discrete Reasoning can have meaning over and
> above the True False values of Logic (and the True False Relationships
> between combinations of Propositions.)
> 
> Discrete Reasoning can have combinations that do not have a meaning or
> which do not have a clear meaning. This is one of the most important
> distinctions.
> 
> It can be used in various combinations of hierarchies and/or in
> non-hierarchies.
> 
> It can, for the most part, be used more freely with other modelling
> methods.
> 
> Discrete Reasoning may be Context Sensitive in ways that produce
> ambiguities, both useful and confusing.
> 
> Discrete Reasoning can be Active. So a statement about some subject
> might, for one example, suggest that you should change your thinking
> about (or representation of) the subject in a way that goes beyond
> some explicit propositional description about some object.
> 
> You may be able to show that Logic can be used in a way to allow for
> all these effects, but I believe that there is a strong argument for
> focusing on Discrete Reasoning, as opposed to Logic, when you are
> working directly on AI.
> 
> Jim Bromer

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