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["Trent Waddington" <trent.waddington@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Ben Goertzel <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A heuristic formula sometimes used is
>
> weightOfEvidence = n/(n+k)
>
> where k is a "personality parameter" ... in this case, clearly, if one
> gets a wOfE from an inference formula, the corresponding n need not be
> an integer

So how about just calling it "evidence".

Trent