[om-list] Recursive Belief Contexts
Mark Butler
butlerm at middle.net
Tue Oct 7 19:30:05 EDT 2003
Schema is probably not a very good word for what someone believes
another person believes, so I have decided to use the word context
instead, and to reserve the word schema for the primary context - what
someone believes about the world, and use the term secondary context to
describe what someone believes about another's beliefs.
A primary goal of mine has been to represent the recursive belief
contexts common to game theory in an normalized orthogonal model.
Natural language and artificial languages like LISP can easily represent
sentences like "He believes she thinks he thinks too much of himself",
but algorithmic correlation of such a proposition to related
propositions is very difficult, without breaking them down into contexts
and referents.
- Mark
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