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You might want to take a look at the concept of Boltzman entropy
and relate that to Shannon's concepts on network messaging; then
the notion of ontological commitment (when you can't be certain
but you can test observables).
Sowa and Peirce before him point out that a problem with rules
based system, theorem provers and the like is the certainty of
the primitive assumptions. As my logic teacher taught, logic
will let you determine the validity/consistency of assertions,
but not their truth.
len
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:Jeff.Lowery@creo.com]
Usability of data is probably equal to the inverse squared of its certainty
I'm just guessing; I wonder if anyone has tried to quantify the usefulness
of uncertain assumptions? Bayes comes to mind.
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