Higher-Order Potentialities and Their Reducers: A Philosophical Foundation Unifying Dynamic Modeling Methods

Abstract

In the development of disciplines addressing dynamics, a major role was played by the assumption that processes can be modelled by introducing state properties, called potentialities, anticipating in which respect a next state will be different. A second assumption often made is that these state properties can be related to other state properties, called reducers. The current paper proposes a philosophical framework in terms of potentialities and their reducers to obtain a common philosophical foundation for methods in AI and Cognitive Science to model dynamics. This framework provides a unified philosophical foundation for numerical, symbolic, and hybrid approaches.

Cite

Text

Bosse and Treur. "Higher-Order Potentialities and Their Reducers: A Philosophical Foundation Unifying Dynamic Modeling Methods." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007.

Markdown

[Bosse and Treur. "Higher-Order Potentialities and Their Reducers: A Philosophical Foundation Unifying Dynamic Modeling Methods." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2007/bosse2007ijcai-higher/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{bosse2007ijcai-higher,
  title     = {{Higher-Order Potentialities and Their Reducers: A Philosophical Foundation Unifying Dynamic Modeling Methods}},
  author    = {Bosse, Tibor and Treur, Jan},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2007},
  pages     = {262-267},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2007/bosse2007ijcai-higher/}
}