On Tue, May 28, 2013 00:42, Patrick Cassidy wrote:
> I generally agree with Doug Foxvog on his comments, but here add a few
> clarifications:
>
> ...
> (3)
> PC: > > There may be other individual abstract entities (e.g. a sentence) (01)
> DF: > Here, you are referring to patterns of symbols. Once a set of
> symbols
>> has been created, all linear combinations of such symbols
>> mathematically
>> exist. So patterns of such symbols technically are not created (nor do
>> they cease to exist) -- they are used by people for some purpose.
>> Different people may use them with different meaning or with
>> (approximately) the same meaning. (02)
> Hmm. I was referring to specific sentences created by an individual
> at a particular time, which to me is a "conceptual work", which is an
> individual of which there may well be some corresponding class. (03)
Here you are referring to a subclass of "conceptual work", in Cyc,
#$TextuallySpecificWork. Note that the book War and Peace, is
not such a work, having a set of versions. Such a work is related
to the appropriate character string with the Cyc binary relation
#$textOfTextuallySpecificWork, whose second argument is a
text string. (04)
> I thought that ConceptualWorks did exist in time in CYC. (05)
Correct. (06)
> They have a creation time. I distinguish between a ConceptualWork
> and some *possible* sequence of words
> which might have an equivalent textual representation (and which might be
> created in a physical representation at some other time by some team of
> monkeys typing randomly) (07)
Good. I (and Cyc) also distinguish between the ConceptualWork and
the text string. The work has many properties that the text string
does not. (08)
-- doug foxvog (09)
> Pat
>
> Patrick Cassidy
> MICRA Inc.
> cassidy@xxxxxxxxx
> 908-561-3416
> ... (010)
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