I think that this paradox is due that some information is lost during inference. The process of information losing may be a big problem for machine decision making and other interesting topics.
Thanks a lot. Best regards, Chenghui Cai Ph.D. Student Lab for Intelligent Systems & Controls (LISC) Duke University >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: >To: uai@engr.orst.edu >Subject: [UAI] Is it a paradox? >Date:Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:48:10 -0700 > >Consider the following line of reasoning. Let p be the proposition "Ronald was born in New York." From p, we can infer q: Ronald was born in the United States. >From q, we can infer r: It is possible that Ronald was born in New Jersey. On >the other hand, from p we can infer s: It is not possible that Ronald was born in New Jersey. We have arrived at a contradiction. What is wrong? Note: To answer the question, familiarity with modal logic is not needed. > > -- > Lotfi A. Zadeh > Professor in the Graduate School, Computer Science Division > Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences > University of California > Berkeley, CA 94720 -1776 > Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC) > Tel.(office): (510) 642-4959 > _______________________________________________ > uai mailing list > uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU > https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai > _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
