Pat Hayes (1993) Effective Descriptions Need not be Complete
. Psycoloquy: 4(21) Frame Problem (5)
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Psycoloquy 4(21): Effective Descriptions Need not be Complete
EFFECTIVE DESCRIPTIONS NEED NOT BE COMPLETE
Reply to Van Brakel on Ford & Hayes on the Frame Problem
Pat Hayes
Beckman Institute
University of Illinois
Urbana IL 61801
Ken Ford
Institute for Human & Machine Cognition
University of West Florida
Pensacola FL 32514
phayes@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu
kford@trivia.coginst.uwf.edu
Abstract
One can approach van Brakel's (1992) review of Ford &
Hayes (1991) in two different ways: as a scholarly critique of the
frame problem (FP) in general, or as an argument that traditional
AI is inadequate to handle a new fundamental problem that he dubs
the "problem of complete description" (PCD). We respond on both of
these levels.
Keywords
Frame-problem, artificial intelligence, temporal logics,
independent persistence, attention, Hume, dynamic frames,
qualification problem.
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