it would be nice to have a fast crisp prover so that the system could jump
to conclusions, and pln more slowly in the background.

On Oct 4, 2017 5:45 PM, "'Nil Geisweiller' via opencog" <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/04/2017 11:02 AM, Linas Vepstas wrote>     And can implement
> algorithms in the graph database-agnostic way and
>
>>     use all the industrial power of the best database available.
>>     Scientists do use commercial off-the-shelf computers for HPC, why
>>     not to use industrial software? And similar things we can say about
>>     use of external reasoners (linear logic, Coq, Isabelle, etc.).
>>
>>
>> If you can attach coq to tinkerpop and make it work ... sure. But you
>> would probably have to completely rewrite both coq and gremlin in order to
>> do this.  And that is a huge amount of work.
>>
>
> I never tried Coq or Isabelle, but the provers I've tried (E and Vampire)
> were using resolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_(logic),
> which doesn't work for a para-consistent logic like PLN, at least not
> out-of-the-box. On top of that PLN is probabilistic (or even
> meta-probabilistic we could say). These make it difficult or at best
> unnatural to use traditional automatic theorem provers. Maybe there's an
> easy way, or a more general framework that I missed, but that was my
> impression when I studied the domain.
>
> Nil
>
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