YKY, About indefinite/imprecise probabilities, you dismiss them as overcomplicated, but you don't address the reason they were introduced in the first place: In essence, to allow a rationally manipulable NARS-like confidence measure that works nicely w/ probabilistic inference and has a probabilistic justification.
What is the semantics of your confidence values? Pei's confidence values have a clear nonprobabilistic semantics, and PLN's have a clear semantics in terms of indefinite probabilities. If you mix NARS confidences with probabilistic inferences you have something semantically confused... Also, in your example A = "Jim had sex with 1000 women" B = "Jim had cybersex with 1000 women" A1 = "Jim had sex with woman_1" B1 = "Jim had cybersex with woman_1" you seem to assume that in a probabilistic approach (Inheritance B A).strength = ( (Inheritance B1 A1).strength)^1000 but in a PLN approach this could be avoided by looking at IntensionalInheritance B A rather than extensional inheritance.. Note that PLN's intensional inheritance incorporates some fuzziness but within a probabilistic framework... we have IntensionalInheritance B A = ExtensionalInheritance ( Prop(B) Prop(A) ) where Prop(X) is the fuzzy set of properties of X (defined in a specific way within PLN) So fuzzy logic per se is not the only way to handle situations like this in a semantically natural, commonsensical way.. there are many ways consistent w probability theory I'm sure, including the PLN way... All in all, my sense is that you want to graft together some standard stuff with relatively minor tweaks ... and I am left wondering why you think that such a relatively straightforward integration of small variations on well-known stuff is going to give results more exciting than those already in the literature.... Maybe there is a good reason, but it didn't seem to be made clear in the paper... -- Ben G would have a truth value equal to ( (Inheritance "Jim had cybersex with one woman" "Jim had -- Ben G On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 1:48 PM, YKY (Yan King Yin) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a draft of my paper.... =) > > I need some feedback before releasing it officially.... > > Comments, suggestions, are welcome! > > YKY > > > > ------------------------------------------- > 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/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome " - Dr Samuel Johnson ------------------------------------------- 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=111637683-c8fa51 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
