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00100 Here are some notes aimed at revising the section in McC and Hayes
00200 concerned with knowledge.
00300
00400 1. An assertion of knowledge has the form
00500
00600 knows(p,e,s)
00700
00800 where p is a person, e is an expression, and s is the situation.
00900
01000 2. In talking about knowledge, we shall also need
01100
01200 value(p,e,s)
01300
01400 which is the value that person p ascribes to the expression e
01500 in situation s. Here s denotes the situation in which p
01600 is doing the ascribing; any situation that p is thinking about
01700 will have to be designated within the expression e.
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01900
02000 Here are some sentences to formalize:
02100
02200 1. John's telephone number is in the book.
02300
02400 2. If someone's telephone number is in the book
02500 and you look it up then you will know it.
02600
02700 3. When I get to Paris airport, it will be apparent how
02800 to change planes for Algiers.
02900
03000 4. In Algiers, someone will have a jeep for rent.
03100
03200 5. If you know an expression e, then the value you
03300 ascribe to it is its value.
03400
03500 6. ∀x. value(name(x)) = x. This may be questionable.
03600
03700
03800 Axiomatize sentences concerned with the storage of information
03900 on paper, how it gets there and how reading results in knowledge.
04000 The fact that the information is stored in English and that the
04100 reader knows English should be expressible.
04200
04300 Questions and questioning: How do I get to the AI project
04400 from San Francisco airport? Go out of the airport and turn south
04500 on the freeway.
04600 Continue for about 20 miles and get off at the Oregon avenue exit.
04700 Go west on Oregon avenue (it changes its name after a while to
04800 Page Mill Road) until you pass under a freeway (280) and turn
04900 right on Arastradero road. The AI project is about a mile on
05000 down the road on the right and is marked by a sign saying
05100 Stanford University Donald C. Power Laboratory. Drive into the
05200 parking lot and park, and you will see stairs leading to an
05300 entrance. Go in and you will find a secretary on the right who
05400 can direct you to whomever you want.
05500
05600 Note: The AI project is not on the Stanford campus, so ignore
05700 signs or advice directing you to the campus.
05800
05900 Note that the above advice does not take into account
06000 possible troubles with the car. Perhaps we should regard it
06100 as telling how to get to the AI lab in a model that is homomorphically
06200 related to the real world.