Section 48 Information about the source of our causal information

Above, we looked at how we can encode ‘C causes E’. Not at how we can encode “P believes that C causes E”.

48.1 Applying the “trust” attribute source-by-source

In section xx we also looked at qualifying causal information according to its quality, which might be less than 100%.

We might consider extending this idea so that individual sources can be given individual and usually different trust attribute, so that an expert source might get a value of say .7 and a community rumour a value of say .1.

The strength of the upgrade to our information due to a report from a source with a standard quality qualifier of .3 would be correspondingly reduced, i.e. multiplied by a factor of .3.

48.2 Including information about sources

A more fundamental move is to include information about sources as a meaningful component in our causal maps with a role in our Soft Arithmetic for causal maps.

see later.