RE: SUO: ontology as science
Rich,
There is an enormous amount to be said about contexts and
their contents. The dot notation for indexing them is just
one issue among many, and it doesn't really address the
reason why contexts are necessary in the first place.
The use of contexts for temporarily distinguishing different
points of view in a dialog or even a single sentence is one
aspect of a much larger issue.
In effect, you could think of having a different context
for every person's belief space (which might, itself, have
many subcontexts). When Tom says something about his beliefs
about what Mary wants, you can get multiple contexts in the
same sentence, which include possibly incompatible statements
extracted from larger contexts.
I am almost finished with a paper I was writing on Laws,
Facts, and Contexts, which is at the following URL:
http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/laws.htm
John