Comment by atoav

As a programmer who has studied philosophy: This is the approach I take more or less in my head when reading articles, however the problem is the ambiguity of natural language.

E.g. lets say the statement is about a presidents promise to end a conflict within 24 hours after coming into office. One could get to a conclusion pretty quickly when the conflict hasn't been ended after 24 hours when they entered the office.

But what does "end the conflict" mean exactly? If the conflict ended how long does it need to remain ended to achieve the label "ended"? What if said president has a history that recontextualizes the meaning of that seemingly simple claim because he is known to define the word "ended" a little different than the rest of us, do you now judge by his or by our definition? What if the conflict is ended but there is a small nest of conflict remaining, after which size do we consider the conflict going on?

I know some of that has official definitions, but not everything has. In the end a lot of that will require interpretation and which definition to chose. But yeah I support your idea, just spelling it out and having a machine-readable chain of thought might help already.