Bongard Problems sorted left have the keyword "seemslike" on the OEBP.

In a "seemslike" Bongard Problem, some relevant information is left out by the way objects are displayed. Solutions to "seemslike" BPs sound like "Seems like a ___ based on the information available vs. seems like a ___ based on the information available". The two sides are typically negations of one another (keyword notso).

Since there is information missing, examples can only be sorted by trusting they appear in a way that hints psychologically at what they actually are (see help).

Although the rule sorting the underlying objects may be precise, the rule sorting the projections of the objects with lost information is fuzzy and subjective.

See also left-couldbe (and right-couldbe), concerning situations in which the information given is enough to determine when some examples fail to satisfy a rule but not enough to determine when they do satisfy the rule, the Bongard Problem's solution being "could be ___ vs. clearly is not". In contrast to "seemslike" Bongard Problems, left-couldbe Bongard Problems can be precise; both evidence of fitting right and absence of evidence of fitting right is clear-cut, so no psychologically helpful hints (help) are needed.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP1226 BP1227 BP1228 BP1229 BP1230  *  BP1232 BP1233 BP1234 BP1235 BP1236

meta (see left/right), links, keyword

Aaron David Fairbanks