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Bilingual analogical proportions via hedges

Logic in Computer Science 2024-01-15 v2 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Analogical proportions are expressions of the form ``aa is to bb what cc is to dd'' at the core of analogical reasoning which itself is at the core of human and artificial intelligence. The author has recently introduced {\em from first principles} an abstract algebro-logical framework of analogical proportions within the general setting of universal algebra and first-order logic. In that framework, the source and target algebras have the {\em same} underlying language. The purpose of this paper is to generalize his unilingual framework to a bilingual one where the underlying languages may differ. This is achieved by using hedges in justifications of proportions. The outcome is a major generalization vastly extending the applicability of the underlying framework. In a broader sense, this paper is a further step towards a mathematical theory of analogical reasoning.

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@article{arxiv.2305.05614,
  title  = {Bilingual analogical proportions via hedges},
  author = {Christian Antić},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.05614},
  year   = {2024}
}
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