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Are these introductory logic textbooks wrong to teach ‘unless’ = ‘or’?
Colin Fine answered on
Unless" does not equal "or" 'directly and intuitively'.
This contradicts the textbooks beneath. Who is correct? Let me ask this here, as I prefer answers from logicians.
Usually, "P unless Q" is "symbolized as P ∨ Q. See…
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Could general-AI language generation be a test for sentience, sapience, or consciousness?
One of the oft-cited examples of how to test if Artificial Intelligence (AI) is intelligent (often expanded to sentient) is the Turing test. Simply, an AI or machine passes the Turing test if it can generate language or conversation that would not…
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Have there been computer searches for Quine's permutations?
In "Word and Object", Quine describes what are effectively automorphisms of languages:
"The infinite totality of sentences of any given speaker's language can be so permuted, or mapped onto itself, that
(a) the totality of the speaker's dispositions…
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What is a basic characterization of relations among metaphor, analogy, and categorification/classification?
Continuing relation of metaphor, analogy, with symmetry my third question is what is the relation between metaphor/analogy with categorification/classification .Please provide examples .
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