RE: RE: SUO: Re: Ballot Comment
Pat,
I have no attachment to the second sentence of the documentation string for 'Physical', viz. "Note that points of space and time are themselves understood to have a location in space-time". In fact, as I recall, this was prompted by concerns you had about whether space/time points have a position in space/time.
As I recall, our discussion earlier was about whether it was proper to think of locations as themselves having a location, so it would be natural to apply that to spatiotemporal points having a spatiotemporal position. But the documentation refers to 'points of space and time', which sounds to me to mean something different, ie points of space and points of time. One needs to be a little careful. A point in an k-dimensional subspace of an n-dimensional space, where k < n, is not a point in the larger space: it corresponds to an (n-k)-dimensional manifold of the larger space rather than a point.
If you've decided that you are no longer happy with the sentence, I'll take it out.
Ian, I was never "happy with the sentence", as I never saw it before. But in any case, it's your ontology: YOU say what it should mean. I was just asking for clarification.
Pat
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