The Hume Machine. Can associations networks do more than formal rules?

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The Hume Machine. Can associations networks do more than formal rules? application/pdf icon
1995

In Stanford Humanities Review Vol.4, n°2 (with G. Teil), pp. 47-66, 1995

Abstract

By pushing to its extreme conclusions recent accounts of formal reasoning in context, this article claims that a machine that cumulates enough context -in the highly reduced forms of co-occurences of words- is able to capture the solidity of most micro-theories; emergent properties are studied of what is a prototype for a work station allowing social science students to treat full texts in a « quali-quantitative” manner.