The Power of Parsimony
Catherine Z. Elgin (1997)
Philosophia Scientiae
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Catherine Z. Elgin (1997)
Philosophia Scientiae
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Paolo Bouquet, Enrico Giunchiglia, Fausto Giunchiglia (1996)
Mathware and Soft Computing
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It has been recognized that AI programs suffer from a lack of generality, the first gross symptom being that a small variation to the problem being solved usually causes a major revision of the theory describing it. The lack of generality seems an unavoidable consequence of the process of approximating the world while building theories about it. In this paper we propose an approach where generality is achieved by formulating, for each problem at hand, an appropriate local theory, a theory...
Emiliano Trizio (2004)
Philosophia Scientiae
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The aim of the article is to establish relations between Kuhn’s general characterization of incommensurability as the impossibility to translate the taxonomies pertaining to rival scientific theories into one another and Hacking’s more specific version of incommensurability affecting competing theories that have stabilized relatively to different laboratory equipments and measurement techniques. On the basis of an analysis of the nature of scientific taxonomies that takes its inspiration...
P. Lorenzen (1968)
Compositio Mathematica
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Léna Soler (2004)
Philosophia Scientiae
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In this article I present, first, a criticism of certain aspects of the way Martin Carrier characterizes semantic incommensurability on the basis of a contextual theory of language. Subsequently I introduce some distinctions and put forward some proposals in order to pursue the same project. It will be argued that two different conceptions of the notion “conditions of applications” and, correlatively, two different meanings of the clause “preservations of the inferential relations”,...
Gérard Milhaud, Élisabeth Godbert (1998)
Mathématiques et Sciences Humaines
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We present a system providing a set of tools for developing natural language processing (NLP) applications such as natural language interfaces, communication aid systems, etc. This system is based on two principles: modularity of knowledge representation to ensure the portability of the system, and guided sentence composition to ensure transparency, i.e. to ensure that the produced sentences are well-formed at the lexical, syntactic, semantic and conceptual levels. We first describe...
Soazig Le Bihan (2004)
Philosophia Scientiae
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Carrier’s paper is mainly a defence of incommensurability as “a sensible notion”, on the basis of the context theory of meaning. I shall here discuss his semantic reconstruction of the notion. His argument consists in exhibiting cases where incommensurability is instantiated thanks to a symmetrical proof of untranslatability, based on a distinction between two determinants of the meaning of a concept. I shall mainly show that a logical asymmetry in the distinction hinders the argument...
Léna Soler (2004)
Philosophia Scientiae
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Luigia Aiello, Mario Aiello, Giuseppe Attardi, Gianfranco Prini (1976)
Annales scientifiques de l'Université de Clermont. Mathématiques
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