Jumbo is an elephant. Elephants are big. What size is Jumbo?
And thus Babble was given a moderately capable reasoning system that fits very nicely within the rest of the tridbit technology, exactly where it belongs. Because it sits on top of a system of meaning representation, many nice things fall into place. For example, because of Babbles ability to understand the scope of a referent, it is perfectly natural to give a specific individual a property, such as “Jumbo is small” which is at odds with the general property given to the individuals category, i.e. “Elephants are big.” All other things being equal, Babble will give the properties assigned to the individual priority, while still being able to observe the dissidence between the two. I describe Babbles reasoning ability as moderately capable because there are many aspects of it that need to be enhanced before Babble could be considered a good thinker.
