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RE: SUO: 2000-7-26 example




Dear John,

I will look at this.

I might add that my expectations are not perhaps the
same as others. If you are able to do something in the
next year or so, this would be good.


Matthew West
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John F. Sowa [mailto:sowa@bestweb.net]
> Sent: 03 September 2001 17:56
> To: West, Matthew R SITI-GREA-UK
> Cc: Adam Pease; Yang Yun; standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org;
> phayes@ai.uwf.edu
> Subject: Re: SUO: 2000-7-26 example
> 
> 
> "West, Matthew R SITI-GREA-UK" wrote:
> > 
> > Dear Adam,
> > 
> > OK so it is fine to add (back) Firstness Secondness and
> > Thirdness, but at least some initial axioms are necessary
> > before this is done. Right?
> > 
> > Can you oblige John?
> 
> Yes, but...
> 
> It is much more than a few axioms, it's an entire infrastructure.
> At the moment, I am desperately trying to finish a paper that I had
> hoped to finish several months ago.  The first 3 sections are fairly
> stable, but the remaining 4 sections are still undergoing major
> revisions and upheavals.  If you promise not to read beyond
> Section 3 (or at least don't consider the later sections to be a
> definitive statement of what I'm trying to say), you can look at
> 
>    http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/signproc.htm
> 
> John Sowa
>