Learning and using relational theories

Kemp, Charles; Goodman, Noah D.; Tenenbaum, Joshua B.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kemp, Charles (Contributor), Goodman, Noah Daniel (Contributor), Tenenbaum, Joshua B (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, 2017-12-18T15:55:09Z.
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520 |a Much of human knowledge is organized into sophisticated systems that are often called intuitive theories. We propose that intuitive theories are mentally represented in a logical language, and that the subjective complexity of a theory is determined by the length of its representation in this language. This complexity measure helps to explain how theories are learned from relational data, and how they support inductive inferences about unobserved relations. We describe two experiments that test our approach, and show that it provides a better account of human learning and reasoning than an approach developed by Goodman [1] . 
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