Higher-order potentialities and their reducers: a philosophical foundation unifying dynamic modelling methods

  • Authors:
  • Tibor Bosse;Jan Treur

  • Affiliations:
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2007

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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.