Re: sketch of an exposition (time)

On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 01:15 -0500, Pat Hayes wrote:
> On May 17, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Jonathan Rees wrote:
[...]
> > Note on time
> >
> >   Although W is time-sensitive, we'll ignore time as it is not
> >   helpful to account for it right now.  later we'll redo the
> >   treatment to take time into account.
> >
> >   So W is OK as a binary relation for now.  Later it might be
> >   W(X,R,t).
> 
> Or it can still be binary, but X can be timesliced:  W(s(X, t), R). I  
> would recommend this as a stronger (more expressive) way to deal with  
> time.

Nifty. Yes, I prefer that approach too.

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