AD,
It's not new. Extensive research has already been done on so-called
"qualitative reasoning." This includes diagrammatic and analogic
reasoning, e.g.
My library includes this title:
"Diagrammatic Reasoning; Cognitive and Computational Perspectives"
Ed. Janice Glasgow, N. Hari Narayanan, B. CHandrasekaran
Pub. AAAI Press / The MIT Press
ISBN 0-262-57112-9
I also know of the "Qualitative Reasoning Group" at Northwestern
(<http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/>).
Though I'm unaware of specifics, there's much more going on. Just search
the Web for "Qualitative Reasoning" or other related topic phrases.
Randall Schulz
Acme Debugging wrote:
>uj797 at victoria.tc.ca (Arthur T. Murray) wrote in message
> news:<3eac29d7 at news.victoria.tc.ca>...
>>>http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/ai4udex.html#reasoning in the
>>>> AI4U textbook of artificial intelligence (q.v.) distinguishes
>>>> between imagistic and syllogistic reasoning.
>>> Seems like a worthy (introductory?) book on AI. I am unfamiliar with
> imagistic reasoning. Is this analogous to the logic of music, or the
> "logical" interpretation thereof?
>> I saw nothing on the integration of logic and probability which is a
> necessary condition to the first-step AI reasoner as defined in this
> thread.
>> Thanks,
>> Larry
