On Thu, September 23, 2010 13:30, Rich Cooper said:
> Following this thread, I have put together a partial lattice (just from
> the
> top down, but not as far as NoT) which may help visualize the structure
> that has been discussed so far: (01)
> The items in red are properties, while the items in black are classes in a
> subclass (isa) structure. It seems to me that “situation” appears twice
> in the diagram, as I have drawn it above. (02)
Situation is not a subclass of Event. The graph is fine if you leave
out the second "Situation". Situations can be either physical or not.
Physical Event is a subclass of Physical Situation and NonPhysical Event
(which i suppose is what you labeled "mental") is a subclass of
NonPhysical Situation. (03)
-- doug foxvog (04)
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> Curiously,
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> -Rich
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> Sincerely,
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> Rich Cooper
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> On Tue, September 21, 2010 20:20, FERENC KOVACS said:
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>> Questions to Doug
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> DF> Physical objects have spatio-temporal properties as well as mass.
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> DF> Mental constructs have temporal properties, but neither spatial nor
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> DF> mass.
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>> Why should have all objects mass?
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> I was only referring to physical objects. Others won't have mass. I
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> suppose i should have said mass/energy since photons do not have mass,
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> yet could be included in the concept "physical object". Narrower
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> subclasses of "physical object" would require mass.
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>> Situations have temporal properties and physical situations have
>> physical
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>> objects as physical participants.
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>> What is a situation?
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> A situation would be either an event or a static arrangement/state of
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> some object(s) over some time period. Examples of static situations
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> would be Barak Obama sitting on the desk in the Oval Office and a
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> specific bank account being overdrawn.
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>> Are all physical objects physical participants?
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> Of physical situations, yes. But a physical person is not a physical
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> participant in an ownership situation, nor is the object owned, even
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> if it is a physical object.
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> DF> [Non-physical situations have only non-physical participants, such as
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> DF> the static
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> DF> situation of a sick leave account having 15 days in it or the event of
> a
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> DF> law expiring.]
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>> Is a sick leave account and 15 days in it one object?
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> No.
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> The account is a single object. The amount in an account is a property
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> of an account that varies with time. The situation of a specific
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> account having a specific amount in it during a specific period is
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> an object, with one relation relating the situation to the account,
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> another relating it to the amount in the account, and another relating
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> it to the time period over which the situation holds.
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> The 15 days is a quantity -- which wouldn't fit the definition of "object"
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> in many ontologies. I'm sure you could create some ontology, O1, in which
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> O1:Object is a superclass of quantity.
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>> Is it a generic object?
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> The account is not the same as the quantity in the account, thus they are
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> not the same object of any kind. If you define a set as an object, then
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> the set comprising the account and a given quantity would by definition
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> be an object in an ontology with that definition.
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>> Is the event of law expiring complete or specific without a date?
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> It is not completely defined without a date.
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> DF> An illness is a physical event. A "form of illness" is a subclass of
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> DF> Illness, which is a subclass of Physical Event.
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>> It may be so subject to the terminology (definitions) of your ontology.
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>> It appears that illness is a physical event as well as a class with
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>> sublasses (forms of illness).
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> These are two different things. Language is sloppy in referring to
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> both cancer and a case of a specific person having cancer as "a disease".
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> "Illness" is a subclass of physical event. "An illness", meaning "an
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> instance of the class Illness" is an individual instance of physical
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> event. "Form of illness" (your term) is a subclass of "type of illness"
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> and is a metaclass since its instances are themselves classes.
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>> What are the members of the class physical events?
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> An event which causes change in the physical world (involving particles
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> which physicists recognize) would be a physical event. Events such as
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> a person receiving or loosing rights at a certain clock time would not
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> be "physical" events.
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>> Boundaries? Extension? Intension?
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>> What is an event? By definition, in verbal terms that make sense and may
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>> be visualized as it suggests to be "real"¯, taking place in spacetime.
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> Non-physical events would take place in time. It might not make much
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> sense to locate many of them to a narrower space than the sphere of human
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> interaction, but a law coming into effect (or expiring) would be located
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> in the territory of jurisdiction of the appropriate geo-political entity.
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> Last time i checked, Cyc had a rather precise definition for Event and
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> Situation. I'm currently traveling and don't have those definitions
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> at my fingertips.
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> -- doug
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>> Thanks, Ferenc
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> DF> Both the organism that is sick and the illness are spatio-temporal
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> DF> things, and thus have a
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> DF> location, starting time, and ending times (as well as other properties
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> DF> of spatio-temporal things). The organism is also a physical object,
> and
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> DF> thus has mass (as well as other properties of physical objects).Ā The
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> DF> illness is also an event and thus has a doer and an object acted on
> (as
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> DF> well as other properties of events).
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