The science of philosophy: An application of semantic category analysis

Abstract

An intelligent machine will require the ability to converse on any subject: including philosophy. This paper describes how the recent discovery of the four Semantic Categories has made it possible for a machine to analysis any assertion, however convoluted, by means of Semantic Category Analysis: a procedure which provides a basis for future Man/Machine dialogue. Analytical examples discussed include the resolution of ambiguity, conundrums, paradox, and the type of assertion that ordains the improbable as the unquestionable. Philosophers make pronouncements that refer to us and our environment in the form of untestable assertions. Testable assertions are scientific, not philosophical. Semantic Category Analysis, a testable scientific procedure, detects beguiling linguistic contrivances: such as the readily persuasive ‘Semantic Intertwine’. Since Semantic Category Analysis can be automated, philosophical tomes can now be scanned for such contrivances. Semantic Category Analysis thus provides the basic foundations of a long overdue field of research: ‘The Science of Philosophy’.