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["Joel Pitt" <joel.pitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Trent Waddington
<trent.waddington@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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".

"evidence" sounds like it's retrieving the actual evidence, so if it
was renamed, I'd suggest the full weightOfEvidence or evidenceCount.

I think getCount is sufficient, provided we document it well.

J