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<html><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><title>Bialowieza</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/default.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/highlight.css" /><script type="text/javascript" src="js/highlight.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="js/page_effects.js"></script><script>hljs.initHighlightingOnLoad();</script></head><body><div id="header"><h2>Generated by <a href="https://github.com/weavejester/codox">Codox</a></h2><h1><a href="index.html"><span class="project-title"><span class="project-name">Wildwood</span> <span class="project-version">0.1.0-SNAPSHOT</span></span></a></h1></div><div class="sidebar primary"><h3 class="no-link"><span class="inner">Project</span></h3><ul class="index-link"><li class="depth-1 "><a href="index.html"><div class="inner">Index</div></a></li></ul><h3 class="no-link"><span class="inner">Topics</span></h3><ul><li class="depth-1 "><a href="AgainstTruth.html"><div class="inner"><span>Against Truth</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Analysis.html"><div class="inner"><span>Analysis</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Arboretum.html"><div class="inner"><span>Arboretum</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Arden.html"><div class="inner"><span>Arden</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 current"><a href="Bialowieza.html"><div class="inner"><span>Bialowieza</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Errata.html"><div class="inner"><span>Errata</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Experience.html"><div class="inner"><span>Experience</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="History.html"><div class="inner"><span>History</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Implementing.html"><div class="inner"><span>Implementing</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="KnacqTools.html"><div class="inner"><span>KnacqTools</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Manifesto.html"><div class="inner"><span>Manifesto</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="OnHylasAndPhilonus.html"><div class="inner"><span>On the First Dialogue of Hylas and Philonous</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="PredicateSubtext.html"><div class="inner"><span>On the subtext of a predicate</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="TheProblem.html"><div class="inner"><span>The Problem</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="intro.html"><div class="inner"><span>Introduction to Wildwood</span></div></a></li></ul><h3 class="no-link"><span class="inner">Namespaces</span></h3><ul><li class="depth-1"><div class="no-link"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>wildwood</span></div></div></li><li class="depth-2 branch"><a href="wildwood.advocate.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>advocate</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2 branch"><a href="wildwood.bialowieza.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>bialowieza</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2 branch"><a href="wildwood.caesar.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>caesar</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2"><div class="no-link"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>dengine</span></div></div></li><li class="depth-3"><a href="wildwood.dengine.engine.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>engine</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2 branch"><a href="wildwood.knowledge-accessor.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree" style="top: -52px;"><span class="top" style="height: 61px;"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>knowledge-accessor</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2"><a href="wildwood.schema.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>schema</span></div></a></li></ul></div><div class="document" id="content"><div class="doc"><div class="markdown"><h1><a href="#bialowieza" name="bialowieza"></a>Bialowieza</h1>
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<p>{ this chapter is in active development }</p>
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<html><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><title>Bialowieza</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/default.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/highlight.css" /><script type="text/javascript" src="js/highlight.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="js/page_effects.js"></script><script>hljs.initHighlightingOnLoad();</script></head><body><div id="header"><h2>Generated by <a href="https://github.com/weavejester/codox">Codox</a></h2><h1><a href="index.html"><span class="project-title"><span class="project-name">Wildwood</span> <span class="project-version">0.1.0-SNAPSHOT</span></span></a></h1></div><div class="sidebar primary"><h3 class="no-link"><span class="inner">Project</span></h3><ul class="index-link"><li class="depth-1 "><a href="index.html"><div class="inner">Index</div></a></li></ul><h3 class="no-link"><span class="inner">Topics</span></h3><ul><li class="depth-1 "><a href="AgainstTruth.html"><div class="inner"><span>Against Truth</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Analysis.html"><div class="inner"><span>Analysis</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Arboretum.html"><div class="inner"><span>Arboretum</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Arden.html"><div class="inner"><span>Arden</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="BatesonKammerer.html"><div class="inner"><span>The Bateson / Kammerer debate</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 current"><a href="Bialowieza.html"><div class="inner"><span>Bialowieza</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Errata.html"><div class="inner"><span>Errata</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Experience.html"><div class="inner"><span>Experience</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="HegemonicArgument.html"><div class="inner"><span>Hegemonic Argument</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="History.html"><div class="inner"><span>History</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="HuxleyKropotkin.html"><div class="inner"><span>The Huxley / Kropotkin debate</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Implementing.html"><div class="inner"><span>Implementing</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="JAccuse.html"><div class="inner"><span>J'Accuse</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="KnacqTools.html"><div class="inner"><span>KnacqTools</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Manifesto.html"><div class="inner"><span>Manifesto</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="OnHylasAndPhilonus.html"><div class="inner"><span>On the First Dialogue of Hylas and Philonous</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="PredicateSubtext.html"><div class="inner"><span>On the subtext of a predicate</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="TheProblem.html"><div class="inner"><span>The Problem</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="intro.html"><div class="inner"><span>Introduction to Wildwood</span></div></a></li></ul><h3 class="no-link"><span class="inner">Namespaces</span></h3><ul><li class="depth-1"><div class="no-link"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>wildwood</span></div></div></li><li class="depth-2 branch"><a href="wildwood.advocate.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>advocate</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2 branch"><a href="wildwood.bialowieza.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>bialowieza</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2 branch"><a href="wildwood.caesar.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>caesar</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2"><div class="no-link"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>dengine</span></div></div></li><li class="depth-3"><a href="wildwood.dengine.engine.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>engine</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2 branch"><a href="wildwood.knowledge-accessor.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree" style="top: -52px;"><span class="top" style="height: 61px;"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>knowledge-accessor</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2"><a href="wildwood.schema.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>schema</span></div></a></li></ul></div><div class="document" id="content"><div class="doc"><div class="markdown"><h1><a href="#bialowieza" name="bialowieza"></a>Bialowieza</h1>
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<p>{ this chapter is in active development; quite a lot of the technical detail in this chapter at present will probably end up in <a href="Implementing.html">Implementing</a>, while additional high level and conceptual design, as it develops, will be here. }</p>
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<h2><a href="#why-bialowieza-" name="why-bialowieza-"></a>Why Bialowieza?</h2>
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<p>Bialowieza is the second iteration of the Wildwood engine, and this following convention its name should start with ‘B’. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa">Białowieża</a> is Europe’s last great wild wood, and it is currently under threat.</p>
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<h2><a href="#motivation" name="motivation"></a>Motivation</h2>
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<li>that <code>:truth</code> and <code>:confidence</code> are both <code>qualifiers</code> of the claim in the sense of the <strong>Q</strong> term;</li>
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<li>that <code>:authority</code> is a form of <code>backing</code> in the sense of the <strong>B</strong> term.</li>
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<p>So what, then, is an ‘argument structure’, as described above? It seems to me that it may be exactly a proposition, with the special feature that the data is not minimised.</p>
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<p>So what, then, is an ‘argument structure’, as described above? It seems to me that it may be exactly a proposition, with the special feature that the value of the <code>:data</code> key is not minimised.</p>
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<h4><a href="#proposition-minimisation" name="proposition-minimisation"></a>Proposition minimisation</h4>
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<p>How are the values of <code>:subject</code>, <code>:object</code> and so on to be passed? If we pass rich knowledge structures around, then we lose the insight that different advocates may know different things about given objects. Thus, while internally within each advocate’s knowledge base objects may be stored with rich data, when they’re passed around in propositions they should be minimised - that is to say, the value should just be a unique identifier, such that, for every object in the domain, if an advocate knows anything at all about that object, it knows its unique identifier and knows the object by that unique identifier.</p>
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<p>Thus the unique identifier has something of the nature of a ‘true name’, in the magical sense. A given true name, a given unique identifier, refers to precisely one thing in the world, and provided that two advocates both know the same true name, they can debats propositions which refer to the object with that true name.</p>
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<p>The object of building Bialowieza as a library is that we should not constrain how applications which use the library store their knowledge. Rather, knowledge accessors must transduce between the representation used by the particular storage implementation and that defined in <code>wildwood.schema</code>. However, what we’ve described above suggests that a hierarchical database would be a very natural fit for knowlege base data - more natural, in this case, than a relational database.</p>
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<h2><a href="#prejudice-and-defaults" name="prejudice-and-defaults"></a>Prejudice, and defaults</h2>
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<p>In Arboretum and later in KnacqTools, default values of features were determined by the ‘knowledge engineer’, normally by asking the domain expert, and were fixed for the knowledge base at all times. But these two programs each reasoned about one case at a time, and did not store knowledge about multiple cases.</p>
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<p>These systems could this be said to be <em>prejudiced</em>, to the extent that knowledge of the world acquired over time did not change their default judgements. Wildwood holds knowledge on potentially very many objects, and that knowledge may change dynamically over time, both as the world changes and as new things which already existed in the world become known.</p>
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<p>These systems could thus be said to be <em>prejudiced</em>, to the extent that knowledge of the world acquired over time did not change their default judgements. Wildwood holds knowledge on potentially very many objects, and that knowledge may change dynamically over time, both as the world changes and as new things which already existed in the world become known.</p>
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<p>Suppose we wish to decide the truth value of the proposition</p>
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<pre><code>{:verb :is :subject :brutus :object :honourable}
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