[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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