Re: Proposals to vote on related to 'event': deadline Dec 14th midnight GMT

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:48 PM, James Cheney <jcheney@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> **
> I think "instantaneous event" is clearest among options so far.  It may be
> clumsy to always say "instantaneous event" - instead it might be easiest to
> say up front (and wherever there is potential for confusion) that we
> consider events to be instantaneous. The term "durative" can be used for
> events that have a duration.
>

This is the current language, but there are a number of us that object to
it, since natural events are durative. The recording of an instant as
having marked that event might be instantaneous, but superseding "event"
with this special, artificial case isn't a good thing. We can just as
easily use the term "event" to denote what we now call "activity", where we
say that an event is a temporally extended perdurant, which would preclude
misunderstandings from the process algebra community.

Jim
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