On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 5:38:27 AM UTC-5, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 7:23:25 AM UTC+1, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 7:57:48 PM UTC-5, Tomas Pales wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 12:49:48 AM UTC+2, Brent wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Which high-lights the category error. Objects can't be >>>> inconsistent...so they can't be consistent either. Only their description >>>> can be consistent or inconsistent. >>>> >>> >>> Now you're just playing with words. As I said, consistent object = >>> consistently defined object; inconsistent object = inconsistently defined >>> object. That's all. >>> >> >> >> >> I don't think there really are any such things as "category errors" in >> the first place, since categories are linguistic entities, not fixed >> platonic universals. >> >> But in terms of inconsistency, there are paraconsistent logics >> >> *Why Paraconsistent Logics?* >> >> https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1215/b3f65dbce2f2d23f18f751c4991e1ee9a614.pdf >> >> that are used by agent programmers to make AI agents. >> >> So in that sense *there are inconsistent objects*. >> > > There sure are inconsistent sentences in the sense that they contain words > with contradictory meanings. But these sentences are not inconsistent in > the ontological sense. In the ontological sense they are just strings of > ink marks or sounds or other marks that exist on paper or in the air or in > the brain, like any sentence. Also, these sentences don't refer to any > object in reality. Some words in these sentences may refer to objects in > reality but the sentences as wholes don't refer to anything. >
But if the running code of a robot (say installed in Sophia [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(robot) ] ) is compiled from some paraconsistent logic program, I think it's perfectly fine to say *"Sophia is a paraconsistent object."* - pt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
