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You might want to take a look at the concept of Boltzman entropy and relate that to Shannon's concepts on network messaging; then the notion of ontological commitment (when you can't be certain but you can test observables). Sowa and Peirce before him point out that a problem with rules based system, theorem provers and the like is the certainty of the primitive assumptions. As my logic teacher taught, logic will let you determine the validity/consistency of assertions, but not their truth. len -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:Jeff.Lowery@c...] Usability of data is probably equal to the inverse squared of its certainty I'm just guessing; I wonder if anyone has tried to quantify the usefulness of uncertain assumptions? Bayes comes to mind.
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