Bloggs Family, The: N. An Imaginary Family Consisting Of Fred And Mary Bloggs And Their Children.

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:Bloggs Family, the: n. An imaginary family consisting of Fred and
Mary Bloggs and their children. Used as a standard example in
knowledge representation to show the difference between extensional
and intensional objects. For example, every occurrence of "Fred
Bloggs" is the same unique person, whereas occurrences of
"person" may refer to different people. Members of the Bloggs
family have been known to pop up in bizarre places such as the DEC
Telephone Directory. Compare {Mbogo, Dr. Fred}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary

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