On Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:28, Philip Goetz wrote: > Oops - looking back at my earlier post, I said that "English sentences > translate neatly into predicate logic statements". I should have left > out "logic". I like using predicates to organize sentences. I made > that post because Josh was pointing out some of the problems with > logic, but then making the false conclusion that predications are a > bad representation. I wanted to say that you can use a predicate > representation, but use something other than FOPL to process it.
I don't think there is a basic disagreement here. I prefaced my earlier remarks with the observation, "... it is clearly straightforward to translate a sentence into a predicate expression in a syntactic way ..." And it doesn't look like you're trying to claim a lot more than that. Presumably you would produce multiple parses for syntactically ambiguous sentences: flies(time,like(arrow)) like(time(flies),arrow) ? --Josh ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
