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Re: [ontolog-forum] Universal Basic Semantic Structures

To: "[ontolog-forum] " <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, William Frank <williamf.frank@xxxxxxxxx>
From: Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:45:46 -0500
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On Sep 26, 2012, at 1:10 PM, William Frank wrote:    (01)

> 
>  Try to imagine a thing you could not classify at all.  I just can't.  Please 
>describe such a thing you have imagined to me.     (02)

Consider a point in space, somewhere in the room you happen to be in. Make it 
reasonably near several ordinary objects. The thing I describe is the 
mereological sum of all, and only, the stuff inside a sphere centered on that 
point, with a radius of 24 inches, at precisely 10:22 pm on the 27 September 
2012, GMT.     (03)

Pat Hayes    (04)

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