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 ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tcc2adcdd20e1add4-M2f40e50f81578fbecb188f7c Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups
