Top-down meaning flow

Meaning inferred from context down to words, following Frege's context principle

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Frege's Context Principle
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Complementary principle to Frege compositionality: word meaning only meaningful in sentence context (top-down meaning flow).
Never ask for word meaning in isolation, but only in the context of a sentence.
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Statement of Frege's context principle; shows tension with strict compositional bottom-up approach.

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2022-08-21 Prabros ACT2022 slides
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Slide presentation on quantum compositional intelligence by Bob Coecke at ACT2022

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Bottom-up meaning flowconcept0.801
Meaning constructed from parts to whole, directly following Frege compositionality
Top-down Causationconcept0.750
How higher organizational levels constrain and facilitate the behavior of parts by deforming their energy landscapes.
top-down controlconcept0.745
Higher levels (tissue, organ, bioelectric pattern) causally influence lower-level events; key for evolutionary and engineering interventions.
Top-Down Attentional Controlconcept0.726
Biological analogue to ESR where top-down mechanisms detect distracting inputs and redirect processing
Top-down predictive modelsconcept0.720
Generative models in the brain that predict sensory input; proposed to be physically stored in VSMC motifs.
Top-Down Models in Biologyframework0.705
Pezzulo and Levin's framework for explanation and control of complex living systems above the molecular level, cited as prior work by Levin
Dropping downmethod0.704
Dynamic condition: a menu-like reveal of subordinate content.
Frege compositionality requires bottom-up meaning flow from parts to whole, contrasting with context principle's top-down flow.claim0.698
Core assertion that Frege's principle embodies bottom-up composition, while his context principle embodies top-down meaning determination.