RE: [Heartlogic-dev] rumination prototype

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 02:02 -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> On Mon, 9 May 2005, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > Jesus loves his father because Jesus is God's son.
> 
> Yes.  Technically this might be better put as...
> 
> Jesus loves his father. [q]
> 
> ...and then later, they can click on this and see why.  I.e. they would 
> see the premises which were:
> 
> Sons love their fathers. [p1]
> Jesus is God's son. [p2]

Hrm, do you want to do this (click to see reasons) for the pilot?  If so
then you'll need to specify dependency information.

> Actually for deductions (like the above, and like "Vienna is wet.") we 
> would want two conditions:
> 
> 1) the believability of the conclusion alone (e.g. the participant would 
> see q alone).
> 
> 2) the believabilty of the conclusion in the context of the premises (e.g. 
> the participant would we "q because p1 and p2".)

OK, that's just a matter of adding more items.

> Slightly better to say...
> 
> "The river Danube is a river."

Heh, that's funny.  :-)

> Suppose a person is experiencing some emotion, call it EMOTION-X.
> 
> Also, suppose that the opposite emotion of EMOTION-X is
> OPPOSITE-EMOTION,
> 
> It follows from the above that they are experiencing zero amount of
> OPPOSITE-EMOTION.
> 
> Actually how we word the rule could even be a variable...that is
> probably something for later.

Sure, just write an item generator.

Hrm, instead of telling me which items you want, why not just modify the
attached script?

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