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BP1159 Bongard Problems where examples are only sorted left if nothing indicates that they would be sorted right vs. vice-versa.
BP250
BP333
BP525
BP823
BP1230
BP1183
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COMMENTS

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

Right-sorted Bongard Problems have the keyword "right-couldbe".


In a "couldbe" Bongard Problem, some relevant information is left out by the way objects are displayed. Solutions to "left-couldbe" BPs sound like "Could be a ___ vs. definitely not a ___" (and vice versa for "right-couldbe" BPs.)



To put it in mathematical jargon, there is a "projection" function from objects to pictures, such that objects satisfying property X are mapped to the same picture as objects not satisfying property X. Sorted on the "couldbe" side is the image (under projection) of the collection of objects satisfying property X.


Furthermore, usually X is a relatively narrow criterion, so that most objects do not satisfy it (see keywords left-narrow and right-narrow), and all pictures are in the image (under projection) of the collection of objects not satisfying property X.

REFERENCE

Consider BP525, "Cropped image of a circle vs. not so." None of the left-hand examples are definitely an image of a circle, but they fit left because nothing indicates that they are not an image of a circle. A more pedantic solution to this Bongard Problem would be "There is a way of cropping a circle that gives this image vs. there isn't."

CROSSREFS

See also the keyword seemslike, where neither side can be confirmed.


Either "left-couldbe" or "right-couldbe" implies notso.


Although the descriptions of "left-couldbe" and "right-couldbe" sound similar to left-unknowable and right-unknowable, they are not the same. It is the difference between a clear absence of information and perpetual uncertainty about whether there is more information to be found.


"Left-couldbe" is usually left-narrow and "right-couldbe" usually right-narrow.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP1154 BP1155 BP1156 BP1157 BP1158  *  BP1160 BP1161 BP1162 BP1163 BP1164

KEYWORD

dual, meta (see left/right), links, keyword, side, viceversa

AUTHOR

Leo Crabbe

BP1154 Visual Bongard Problems about Bongard Problems vs. other visual Bongard Problems.
BP805
BP1151
BP1153
BP961
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COMMENTS

This Problem is mostly concerned with categorising BPs whose examples aren't necessarily formatted as traditional Bongard Problems.

CROSSREFS

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP1149 BP1150 BP1151 BP1152 BP1153  *  BP1155 BP1156 BP1157 BP1158 BP1159

KEYWORD

meta (see left/right), links

WORLD

visualbp [smaller | same | bigger]

AUTHOR

Leo Crabbe

BP1153 Valid multi-sided Bongard Problems vs. invalid multi-sided Bongard Problems.
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COMMENTS

This is a generalisation of Bongard Problems that allows them to have any number of sides. There is a sense in which this problem is about valid vs. invalid ways of partitioning a set of examples into equivalence classes.

CROSSREFS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_class

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP1148 BP1149 BP1150 BP1151 BP1152  *  BP1154 BP1155 BP1156 BP1157 BP1158

KEYWORD

abstract, teach, meta (see left/right), miniproblems, infodense, structure, rules, miniworlds

WORLD

zoom in left

AUTHOR

Leo Crabbe

BP1142 Bongard Problems where there is no way to turn an example into any other sorted example by adding black OR white (not both) vs. Bongard Problems where some example can be altered in this way and remain sorted.
BP285
BP304
BP328
BP329
BP342
BP801
BP934
BP1017
BP1056
BP1104
BP1145
BP1155
BP1156
BP859
BP962
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COMMENTS

Left-sorted problems have the keyword "finishedexamples" on the OEBP.


The addition does not have to be slight.


Left-sorted Problems usually have a very specific collection of examples, where the only images sorted all show the same type of object.


Any Bongard Problem where all examples are one shape outline will be sorted left, and (almost) any Bongard Problem where all examples are one fill shape will be sorted right.

CROSSREFS

See BP1144 for the version about both additions and erasures, and only slight changes are considered.


See BP1167 for a stricter version, the condition that all examples have the same amount of black and white.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP1137 BP1138 BP1139 BP1140 BP1141  *  BP1143 BP1144 BP1145 BP1146 BP1147

KEYWORD

unwordable, notso, meta (see left/right), links, keyword, sideless, problemkiller

AUTHOR

Leo Crabbe

BP1140 Bongard Problems where there is a way of adding details to some example (without erasing) that would sort it on the other side vs. Bongard Problems where there is no way of adding details to examples that would sort them on the other side.
BP1
BP2
BP3
BP4
BP6
BP14
BP15
BP335
BP5
BP8
BP10
BP11
BP12
BP13
BP16
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COMMENTS

This classification is specifically concerned with changes to examples that leave them sortable, as there are almost always ways of adding details to a BP's examples that make them unsortable.


Another version of this Bongard Problem could be made about adding white (erasure of detail) instead of black (addition of detail).

Another version could be made about adding either white or black, but not both.

CROSSREFS

Closely related to gap Problems and stable Problems.

Bongard Problems tagged finishedexamples will fit right.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP1135 BP1136 BP1137 BP1138 BP1139  *  BP1141 BP1142 BP1143 BP1144 BP1145

KEYWORD

meta (see left/right), links, sideless, invariance

AUTHOR

Leo Crabbe

BP1139 Bongard Problems where, given any example, there is a way to add details to it (without erasing) such that it is sorted on the other side vs. BPs where this is not the case.
BP35
BP50
BP62
BP72
BP322
BP335
BP388
BP391
BP533
BP935
BP937
BP969
BP977
BP986
BP1016
BP1099
BP1100
BP1101
BP1109
BP1
BP2
BP22
BP23
BP70
BP788
BP892
BP920
BP932
BP933
BP949
BP971
BP972
BP1102
BP1136
?
BP966
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COMMENTS

This classification is specifically concerned with changes to examples that leave them sortable, as there are almost always ways of adding details to a BP's examples that make them unsortable.


Right-sorted BPs in this Bongard Problem are often Bongard Problems where there is always a way of adding to left-sorted examples to make them right-sorted, but not the other way around, or vice versa.


Another version of this Bongard Problem could be made about adding white (erasure of detail) instead of black (addition of detail).

Another version could be made about adding either white or black, but not both.


Where appropriate, you can assume all images will have some room in a lip of white background around the border (ignoring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox ).


You can't expand the boundary of an image as you add detail to it. If image boundaries could be expanded, then any shape could be shrunken to a point in relation to the surrounding whiteness, which could then be filled in to make any other shape.



How should this treat cases in which just a few examples can't be added to at all (like an all-black box)? E.g. BP966. Should this be sorted right (should the one special case of a black box spoil it) or should it be sorted left (should examples that can't at all be further added be discounted)? Maybe we should only sort BPs in which all examples can be further added to. (See BP1143left.) - Aaron David Fairbanks, Nov 12 2021


Is "addition of detail" context-dependent, or does it just mean any addition of blackness to the image? Say you have a points-and-lines Bongard Problem like BP1100, and you're trying to decide whether to sort it left or right here. You would just want to think about adding more points and lines to the picture. You don't want to get bogged down in thinking about whether black could be added to the image in a weird way so that a point gets turned into a line, or something. - Aaron David Fairbanks, Nov 13 2021

CROSSREFS

See BP1139 for Bongard Problems in which no example can be added to, period.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP1134 BP1135 BP1136 BP1137 BP1138  *  BP1140 BP1141 BP1142 BP1143 BP1144

KEYWORD

meta (see left/right), links, sideless

AUTHOR

Leo Crabbe

BP1134 Bongard Problem with solution relating to concept: impossible vs. Bongard Problem unrelated to this concept.
BP252
BP821
BP868
BP1133
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CROSSREFS

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP1129 BP1130 BP1131 BP1132 BP1133  *  BP1135 BP1136 BP1137 BP1138 BP1139

KEYWORD

meta (see left/right), links, metaconcept

CONCEPT This MBP is about BPs that feature concept: "impossible"

WORLD

bp [smaller | same | bigger]

AUTHOR

Leo Crabbe

BP1113 Bongard Problems relating to the OEBP vs. Bongard Problems unrelated to the OEBP.
BP503
BP504
BP518
BP542
BP546
BP919
BP930
BP943
BP967
BP1113
BP1121
BP1125
BP1150
BP1174
BP1
BP2
BP3
BP4
BP5
BP6
BP7
BP8
BP9
BP10
BP11
BP12
BP13
BP14
BP15
BP16
BP17
BP18
BP19
BP20
BP21
BP22
BP23
BP24
BP25
BP26
BP27
BP28
BP29
BP30
BP31
BP32
BP33
BP34
BP35

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COMMENTS

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


Most Bongard Problems relating to the OEBP are meta.

CROSSREFS

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP1108 BP1109 BP1110 BP1111 BP1112  *  BP1114 BP1115 BP1116 BP1117 BP1118

KEYWORD

notso, meta (see left/right), links, keyword, oebp, left-self, metameta

AUTHOR

Leo Crabbe

BP1112 "Stretch-dependent" Bongard Problems vs. Bongard Problems in which examples can be stretched (or compressed) along any axis without being sorted differently.
BP7
BP11
BP12
BP13
BP33
BP50
BP62
BP76
BP77
BP80
BP103
BP152
BP250
BP289
BP328
BP329
BP333
BP335
BP336
BP523
BP525
BP536
BP557
BP559
BP812
BP813
BP816
BP860
BP920
BP924
BP942
BP949
BP1011
BP1086
BP1133

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BP1
BP5
BP15
BP31
BP45
BP98
BP157
BP240
BP322
BP327
BP330
BP331
BP332
BP348
BP363
BP367
BP368
BP369
BP389
BP809
BP810
BP851
BP853
BP911
BP966
BP977
BP992
BP1022
BP1094
BP1131
BP1135
BP1136
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COMMENTS

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


If applying a scaling along one particular axis to the whole of any example can change its sorting the BP fits on the left side here. (For BPs with bounding boxes this means scaling and cropping, but without cutting out any detail.)

CROSSREFS

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP1107 BP1108 BP1109 BP1110 BP1111  *  BP1113 BP1114 BP1115 BP1116 BP1117

KEYWORD

meta (see left/right), links, keyword, invariance

WORLD

[smaller | same | bigger]

AUTHOR

Leo Crabbe

BP1103 Bongard Problem with solution relating to concept: cube vs. Bongard Problem unrelated to this concept.
BP559
BP945
BP1102
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CROSSREFS

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP1098 BP1099 BP1100 BP1101 BP1102  *  BP1104 BP1105 BP1106 BP1107 BP1108

KEYWORD

meta (see left/right), links, metaconcept

CONCEPT This MBP is about BPs that feature concept: "cube"

WORLD

bp [smaller | same | bigger]

AUTHOR

Leo Crabbe

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