Dec 9, 2012

Other Factors: Stuff, like movies, songs, experts, etc that agaree or disagree

Similar to how I say books can support or oppose different conclusions, movies (often documentaries) can support or oppose different conclusions. Rotten tomatoes gives scores to movies. All of this data could be imported, as well as the formal logical arguments that a movie actually attempts to support or oppose a belief.

L = Link score. When we submit beliefs as reasons to support other beliefs, and give higher scores to conclusions that have more reasons to agree with them, people will try to submit beliefs that don’t really support the conclusion. For instance someone might post the belief that the grass is green as a reason to believe the NY Giants will win the super bowl. The beliefs that the grass is green will receive a high score, but the “Link Score” as will be close to zero.

* As we work this out we may have to apply multiplication factors to not give too much or too little weight to a factor.

** Who has a “.edu” e-mail address from the philosophy department of an accredited university

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