- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 18:07:26 -0400
- To: samwald@gmx.at
- Cc: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
One place to start would be: google: cyc temporal subabstractions http://www.google.com/search?q=cyc+temporal+subabstractions&btnG=Search On May 29, 2007, at 4:59 PM, samwald@gmx.at wrote: > Could you please point us to some literature about the 'histories' > view? I remember that Alan Rector asked how my proposal of AFO > would relate to 'histories', and I could not find any specific > literature about that kind of ontological representation. Probably > I searched in the wrong places. One place to start would be: google: cyc temporal subabstractions http://www.google.com/search?q=cyc+temporal+subabstractions&btnG=Search One of the CYC reports cites Patrick's work as related, specifically chapter 3 of Formal Theories of the Commonsense World, which you can read a snippet of at. To find out specifically about histories, do search within this book... http://books.google.com/books?id=aUO2PCw-vdgC&dq=Formal+Theories+of +the+Common+Sense +World&pg=PA1&ots=aYYEVIzUUR&sig=NAgevB43tre5mzCZeSRfh6m_7a4&prev=http:/ /www.google.com/search%3Fclient%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26q%3DFormal% 2BTheories%2Bof%2Bthe%2BCommon%2BSense%2BWorld%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe% 3DUTF-8&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=1#PPA71,M1 I haven't been able to find Pat's "Naive Physics" papers on line, but certainly googling them comes up with a bunch of interesting stuff :) -Alan > > I am somewhat confused about why we need to introduce the term > 'history', and as it seems, others have been confused too. I would > rather prefer to just call these entities 'things at a certain > timespan'. Histories, in the common understanding, cannot have > properties like 'temperature' -- only the entities themselves can > have these properties. > > cheers, > Matthias Samwald > > > > . > -- > GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. > Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail >
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