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Property: what can be ascribed to an object in order to distinguish it from other objects. In philosophy, there is debate about whether properties exist or whether "bare particulars" exist. Expressions for properties are predicates. Not every predicate will refer to a property. See also quantification over properties, 2nd order logic, HOL, completeness.
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Marvin Minsky on Properties - Dictionary of Arguments

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Properties/Artificial Intelligence/Minsky: The most useful sets of properties are those whose members do not interact too much. This explains the universal popularity of that particular combination of properties: size, color, shape, and substance. Because these attributes scarcely interact at all with one another (…).
>Color
, >Shape, >Substance.
Orthogonality: you can imagine changing the color of a dress or its size, shape, or the fabric of which it's made, without altering any of its other properties.
Representation: However, that doesn't explain why such changes do not interact inside the mind. Why is it so easy to imagine a small brown wooden cube or a long red silk skirt?
Cf. >Brain/Deacon, >Language evolution/Deacon, >Language acquisition/Deacon,
>Language/Deacon.
The simplest explanation is that we represent each of the properties of material, color, size and shape in separate agencies.
>Software-Agents/Minsky.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Minsky I
Marvin Minsky
The Society of Mind New York 1985

Minsky II
Marvin Minsky
Semantic Information Processing Cambridge, MA 2003


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