Responsiveness

Requirement that answers to questions be responsive as well as truthful; requires knowing that questioner will know the answer after receiving it.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

paper

concept

H. P. Grice
mentions
Philosopher whose work on conversational implicature McCarthy references when discussing responsiveness of answers.
truthfulness
associated_with
A correctness condition requiring assertions to be true.

question

How can we formally specify and verify that answers to questions are responsive rather than merely truthful?
gates
Core problem requiring logical apparatus beyond simple truth conditions; McCarthy proposes solution using concept notation from McCarthy 1979b.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

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