Left-sorted Bongard Problems have the keyword "stub" on the OEBP.

Right-sorted Bongard Problems have the keyword "finished" on the OEBP.

Users are not able to add or remove examples from Problems tagged "finished." (This is unusual; most Bongard Problems on the OEBP can be expanded indefinitely by users.)

A "finished" Bongard Problem will always admit the alternate, convoluted solution "is [left example 1] OR is [left example 2] OR . . . OR is [last left example] vs. is [right example 1] OR is [right example 2] OR . . . OR is [last right example]".

Bongard's original Problems are tagged "finished."

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP499 BP500 BP501 BP502 BP503  *  BP505 BP506 BP507 BP508 BP509

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Left-sorted Bongard Problems have the keyword "keyword" on the OEBP.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP513 BP514 BP515 BP516 BP517  *  BP519 BP520 BP521 BP522 BP523

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This is about BP pages on the OEBP.

Left examples have the keyword "world" on the OEBP.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP541 BP542 BP543 BP544 BP545  *  BP547 BP548 BP549 BP550 BP551

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Left-sorted BPs have the keyword "left-full" on the OEBP.

For meta-BPs about solution ideas, left-full only means the BP page hopes to include all fitting BP pages on the OEBP (as opposed to all possible Bongard Problems).

As with applying the keywords left-finite and right-finite, deciding what should count as "different" examples depends on the Bongard Problem.

Note this is not just BP574 (right-full) flipped.

TODO: Maybe this should be changed into two keywords: one for non-meta-BPs and one for meta-BPs. - Aaron David Fairbanks, Feb 11 2021

For non-meta BPs, left-full implies left-finite (at least until the OEBP implements a feature that allows algorithmic generation of infinite examples).

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP568 BP569 BP570 BP571 BP572  *  BP574 BP575 BP576 BP577 BP578

meta (see left/right), links, keyword

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Left-sorted BPs have the keyword "right-full" on the OEBP.

BPs are sorted based on how BP573 (left-full) would sort them were they flipped; see that page for a description.

For non-meta BPs, right-full implies right-finite (at least until the OEBP implements a feature that allows algorithmic generation of infinite examples).

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP569 BP570 BP571 BP572 BP573  *  BP575 BP576 BP577 BP578 BP579

meta (see left/right), links, keyword

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Alternatively, BP pages on the OEBP with number less than or equal to 100 vs. other BP pages.

Bongard's original Problems have the keyword "bongard" on the OEBP.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP793 BP794 BP795 BP796 BP797  *  BP799 BP800 BP801 BP802 BP803

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Left examples have the keyword "concept" on the OEBP.

Each concept has a corresponding metaconcept page, which describes that concept and catalogues Bongard Problems featuring that concept.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP809 BP810 BP811 BP812 BP813  *  BP815 BP816 BP817 BP818 BP819

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Left examples have the keyword "contributepairs" on the OEBP.

When this keyword is added to a Problem, OEBP users are advised to add a corresponding right example for every left example they add and vice versa.

It is common for Bongard Problems to present left examples on the left side and corresponding altered versions of those examples on the right side, tweaked only slightly, to highlight the difference and make the solution easier to see (see keyword help).

This is common in more abstract Bongard Problems that admit a wide range of examples, a variety of different styles or types (e.g. BP360). Showing two versions of the same thing, one on the left and one on the right, helps a person interpret what that thing is meant to be in the context of the Bongard Problem; whatever qualities vary between the two in the pair must be relevant.

If a person cannot sort an example according to the solution property without seeing its corresponding opposite example, the Bongard Problem is invalid (see https://www.oebp.org/invalid.php ). There is no one rule dividing the sides; the solution is not a method to determine whether an arbitrary example fits left or right. See also Bongard Problems with the keyword collective, which are similarly borderline-invalid.

A BP in which each left example corresponds to a right example and vice versa could be remade as a Bongard Problem in which the left examples are the pairs. For example BP360 would turn into "a pair consisting of the ordered version of something and the chaotic version of the same thing vs. a pair of things not satisfying this relationship." This process would turn a Bongard Problem that is invalid in the sense described above into a valid one.

(See keyword orderedpair.)

In some "contributepairs" Bongard Problems there really is a natural choice of left version for every right example and vice versa (see keyword dual); in others the choice is artificially imposed by the Bongard Problem creator.

When "contributepairs" Bongard Problems are laid out in the format with a grid of boxes on either side of a dividing line, the boxes may be arranged so as to highlight the correspondence: either

A B | A B

E F | E F

G H | G H

or

A B | B A

E F | F E

G H | H G.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP914 BP915 BP916 BP917 BP918  *  BP920 BP921 BP922 BP923 BP924

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Left examples have the keyword "help" on the OEBP.

BPs should be marked "help" when the OEBP wants most examples (at least on one side) to be helpful (not when just one or two uploaded examples are helpful).

Helpfulness can be a spectrum; most Bongard Problems are helpful to some degree just by not using the most convoluted unintelligible examples possible.

Examples that are helpful to people are often not particularly helpful to computers.

Any helpful Bongard Problem has a harder, not helpful version. For example, BP384 (square number of dots versus non-square number of dots) would be much harder if all examples had hundreds of dots that weren't arranged recognizably. Instead, the dots in the examples are always arranged in shapes that make the square-ness or non-square-ness of the numbers easy to check without brute counting.

When all examples in a Bongard Problem are helpful, it may become unclear whether the helpfulness is part of the Bongard Problem's solution.

E.g.: Is the left-hand side of BP384 "square number of dots", or is it "square number of dots that are arranged in a helpful way so as to communicate the square-ness"?

See seemslike, where examples being helpful is an irremovable aspect of the Bongard Problem's solution.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP925 BP926 BP927 BP928 BP929  *  BP931 BP932 BP933 BP934 BP935

anticomputer, meta (see left/right), links, keyword, oebp, instruction

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