Re: [Heartlogic-dev] how to format deductions?

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 00:05 -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> Joshua,
> 
> I adopted the following from my dissertation...
> 
> Suppose a boy wants some orange juice.  At bedtime his dad makes him
> some hot chocolate.  Marvin believes the boy would be happy because
> the boy did not get what he wanted.
> 
> ...or worst case, easiest to implement option is to just treatm this
> like a normal item.  In which case, our participants would see...
> 
> Marvin the robot believes:
> 
> <i>Suppose a boy wants some orange juice.  At bedtime his dad makes him
> some hot chocolate.  Marvin believes the boy would be happy because
> the boy did not get what he wanted.</i>
> 
> Rate the believability of the statement.
> 
> ...of course that is suboptimal.

Yah, that's bad because the introductory suppositions are not meant to
be rated.

>   So can we special case these?  Here
> is what might fly...

No problem.  The database is designed for storing trees, just like this.
In fact, you probably want to separate the affect and the reason also.

> Suppose the following is true:
> 
> A boy wants some orange juice.  At bedtime his dad makes him some hot
> chocolate.
> 
> Marvin the robot believes:
> 
>       The boy would be happy because the boy did not get what he
>       wanted.
> 
> Rate the believability of that statement.

Just keep things on separate lines in your file.

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