Symbolic representations decompose common sense knowledge into primitives. This presentation proposes principles for choosing more fine-grained primitive properties, relations, and combinations. John F. Sowa's categories from Charles Sanders Peirce motivate some potential primitives. The presentation diagrams the words of an example sentence "Make an application that shows the text 'Hello, world!'." as high-order logical expressions to show potential primitive usage. Processing the example with simple grammar rules and common sense information combines the individual word expressions. Limited categories of primitives are proposed along with potential development plans.
This presentation exposes current personal research in Knowledge Representation for comments.
