Re: Negation and "Opposition"

Hi Matt

I dont know if my answer resolves your question or kills your patient - 
also because I may formulate the rule differently but If your problem 
is  the accidental reference of the rule to sheep,planes and mobile 
phones, then the answer may be 'create a class'

so that  the answer is

"anything that is disjoint with tamoxifen"  and "is of class: treatement"
that would restict the choice to an acceple category of resolution



PDM



>Because of these two things, the ontological notion of negation is
>important. For example, if we have the rule:
>
>Tamoxifen(x) -> Dead(x)
>
>then I want to develop a rule that says (roughly):
>
>notValues(Dead(x)) -> not Tamoxifen(x)
>
>Leaving aside the values bit, negating the Tamoxifen seems a bit
>difficult - because (as I understand it) it means "anything that is
>disjoint with tamoxifen" - which might include other treatments, but
>also might include sheep, planes and mobile phones....
>
>Does this make sense - and if so, does anyone have any ideas about how
>to resolve it?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Matt
>
> 
>  
>

Received on Thursday, 11 May 2006 14:57:57 UTC