…an explanation. These are the ways knowledge growth, top-down or bottom-up. Pattern recognition contributes to this process by the development of specific tools. The top-down approach, the Platonic way, is…

Aristotle and the ugly duckling theorem

…We already discussed several times the significance of understanding the Platonic and Aristotelian ways of gaining knowledge. It can be of great help to researchers in the field of…

Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition

…From a scientific point, however, the two fields follow a fundamentally different direction. Elsewhere the difference has been described between the Platonic and Aristotelian ways of dealing with knowledge. Plato

The ten Aristotelian categories, features and dissimilarities

…The founding fathers of philosophy, Plato and Aristotle, created two competing foundations for knowledge: the ideas and the categories. According to Plato reality is constituted by the non-materialistic ideas:…

Machine learning and pattern recognition

…in their origin as the Platonic and Aristotelian ways of gaining knowledge: starting from the concepts or starting from the observations. But where do we have to position ML? It…

Who invented the nearest neighbor rule?

…rule. By using both, the particular forms as well as the universal form, Alhazen follows Aristotle as well as Plato. See our discussion on these two approaches in relation with…

Statistical pattern recognition

…concepts that can be applied to new, unseen observations. How should this be done in an automatic way? What tools are needed? Previous discussions on prior knowledge and Plato and…