Oh, I think the representation is quite important. In particular, logic lets you in for gazillions of inferences that are totally inapropos and no good way to say which is better. Logic also has the enormous disadvantage that you tend to have frozen the terms and levels of abstraction. Actual word meanings are a lot more plastic, and I'd bet internal representations are damn near fluid.
"Logic" is a highly generic term ... I agree with your statement re crisp predicate logic as typically utilized, but uncertain term logic does provide guidance regarding which inferences are apropos.... It also however gets rid of the elegance and compactness that YKY likes: an uncertain logic representation of a simple sentence may involve tens of thousands of contextal, uncertain relationships, possibly including the "obvious" ones involved in the standard crisp predicate logic representation... -- Ben G ----- 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
