PeteOlcott wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 9:58 pm
Since it is an inheritance hierarchy it is directed.
What is at the top of the inheritance hierarchy? Things? A thing is a concept.
What is at the bottom of the hierarchy? Domain-specific data?
How many domains are there?
PeteOlcott wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 9:58 pm
By the theory of simple types I mean the doctrine which says that the objects of thought (or, in another interpretation, the symbolic expressions) are divided into types, namely: individuals, properties of individuals, relations between individuals, properties of such relations,
The above indicates to me that you and I are definitely not on the same page.
Objects of thought? Do you have an ontological model for thought? Where does meta-cognition (thinking about thinking) come into your graph?
PeteOlcott wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 9:58 pm
Which can be boiled down to relations between things.
Yeah. If you leave the knower out of the equation.
PeteOlcott wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 9:58 pm
Here is a diagram of the graph with {Thing} as the pinnacle node.
http://www.cyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2 ... base-1.png
So this acyclic graph is an inheritance hierarchy of relations each node representing
a single atomic concept. A directed edge links a Relation to its arguments and a child to its parent.
So, do you recognize that what you are showing is us is just one of infinitely many possible taxonomies?
Taxonomy is the product of the
Categorization process
which takes place in the mind.
And you have no model of the mind.... so why is your taxonomy better than my taxonomy?
It seems to me you are allowing the model used by Cyc to influence your thinking.
Have you considered that the model Cyc uses is simply the product of the choices of those who engineered it?
Have you considered that there are more complex, more complete knowledge-bases than Cyc out there? Google....
PeteOlcott wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 9:58 pm
This node would be either a predicate or an argument to a predicate which
itself could be another predicate.
I can't decide (from your use of the word "would be") is you are talking about the present or future.
Is this how you conceptualise "knowledge"?
Is this a system you intend to build?
Either way - it sure sounds to me like you are oblivious to the analytic/synthetic distinction as it exists in systems theory (N.B NOT the Kantian distinction).
Further observation: you are obsessed with 100% certain truths in a world that has exactly none of those. Time for some probability theory in your episteme?