Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!orca!shark!brianp From: brianp@shark.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Re: Commonsense Reasoning? Message-ID: <836@shark.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 17:00:58 EDT Article-I.D.: shark.836 Posted: Tue Jun 19 17:00:58 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 01:15:14 EDT References: <953@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 17 About "if 3 is half of 5, what is a third of 10?" It is interesting to note the assumptions that might be made here. One could assume that all numbers retain their good-old standard meaning, except 3, when compared to 5. Then the chain of relationships (3:5/2, 6:5, 12:10, 4:10/3) can be made. What I first thought was "so what's a '10'? " I.e, let's toss out all the definitions of the numbers along with 3. 'Half' could be redefined, but that says nothing about what to do with 'third'. One could redefine 'is', in effect, making it mean the ':' relation of the previous article. Anybody have hypotheses on which assumptions or definitions one would tend to drop first, when solving a puzzle of this sort? Brian Peterson ...!ucbvax!tektronix!shark!brianp