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From: borgia@cwruecmp.UUCP (The Prince)
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Subject: Re: expert system algorithms
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Date: Tue, 3-Apr-84 21:04:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  3 21:04:46 1984
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Don't we always come back to the same old epistemological question?
What good is any system to a human being unless it is understood
(may be in parts) by one or more human beings?

An expert system should be an intelligent and articulate student
who learns from several experts. Understanding control structures
is not the critical issue. Well-known and fairly simple inference
mechanisms are available. The key issue is articulating what 
knowledge was used and how in solving a problem.

"What good is knowledge when it brings no profit to its bearer"

- Teireisias in Oedipus the King, Sophocles

-- joe borgia

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