An approach to logical cognition and rationality in artificial intelligence

Our description of logical framing as a process of rational comprehension of perceptual experience by an intelligent agent begins with the definition of "templates" and "objects". Templates are similar to forms and schemata, and objects are similar to perceptual patterns. While both are network-like structures of data, they differ in both content and function. The nodes of an object represent the elements or parts of some external thing, and the links represent the relations between elements. Elements are defined by "descriptive properties" that exist along any number of dimensions (e.g.