Re:The bigger-is-better approach to AI is running out of road
by chongli on Saturday June 24, 2023 @11:09PM
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A concept is its relations to other concepts.
No, that's an a priori concept. A posteriori concepts comprise empirical knowledge which necessitates experience of the world [1].
Example: you can know a priori that "all bachelors are unmarried." If I tell you "Tom is a bachelor" then you know that Tom is unmarried (assuming I tell the truth about Tom being a bachelor).
But if I say "all bachelors are unhappy" then you haven't learned anything because knowledge about the happiness/unhappiness of bachelors is an empirical question. To know whether or not I was telling the truth, you would need to conduct research about the real world, for example by conducting a survey of bachelors.
No, that's an a priori concept. A posteriori concepts comprise empirical knowledge which necessitates experience of the world [1].
Example: you can know a priori that "all bachelors are unmarried." If I tell you "Tom is a bachelor" then you know that Tom is unmarried (assuming I tell the truth about Tom being a bachelor).
But if I say "all bachelors are unhappy" then you haven't learned anything because knowledge about the happiness/unhappiness of bachelors is an empirical question. To know whether or not I was telling the truth, you would need to conduct research about the real world, for example by conducting a survey of bachelors.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_priori_and_a_posteriori