If A And B, Then C?

9 November 2003

”In the real world, we are usually operating with partial, inconclusive or context-sensitive information. When we have to make a decision based on this information, we guess, extrapolate, intuit, we do what we did last time, we do what we think our friends would do or what Jesus or Joan Jett would have done, we do all of those things and more, but we almost never use actual deductive logic.”

Clay Shirky
The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview
November 7, 2003

The link to this essay came from AKMA’s Random Thoughts. Visiting that link, you’ll find a number of other links to essays about the Semantic Web.

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