GOVERNED LOGIC REASONING SYSTEMS
Follow the chain.
The objective is truth, not winning an argument.
Investigate whether propositions, premises, inferences, and conclusions correspond to reality.
Examine the reasoning chain from premise through inference, adjudication, conclusion, representation, and termination.
Representations are answerable to their referents.
The referent remains the referent regardless of the representations used to reason about it.
A representation of a state is not the state it represents.
Changing a representation does not change the represented state.
Truth governs logic.
Logic governs reasoning.
Reasoning is upstream of intelligence.