Re: [opencog-dev] Swapping arguments in Intensional Inheritance?

2018-05-20 Thread Linas Vepstas
Hi Nil, Yes, that sounds right to me. You seem to be saying that "larger sets are easier to describe", which might typically be the case. I can think of one counter-example: Imagine a star-shaped set, or maybe some complicated fractal set -- say, the mandelbrot set. Several circles lie inside

[opencog-dev] Swapping arguments in Intensional Inheritance?

2018-05-17 Thread 'Nil Geisweiller' via opencog
Hi, I wonder if the order of arguments in intensional inheritance shouldn't be swapped. Let me recall the definitions of the various inheritances (according to the PLN book [and coincidingly the opencog wiki]) 1. Extensional Inheritance ExtInh A B is equivalent to SubSet A B 2.