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RE: SUO: RE: First piece of 4D ontology




Dear Robert,

> ### Ian, Matthew,
> 
> ### am traveling in US so replies may be a bit slower. I had 
> also noticed the relationship between in Matthew's axioms #3 
> and #4 but in fact, why does the comment of #3 talk about 
> classes while the code is expressed using collection? Is that 
> accidental or intentional. 

MW: Just an editiing accident. I'm having troubles picking and using terms
consistently for the meanings I have.

> Similarly, is "member of" the same 
> as "is a"?

MW: Well I don't like to use "is a" because it can be ambiguous in natural
language, being commonly used both for subclass-of and member-of.
> 
> ### BTW these 4 axioms don't tell me a whole lot... not to 
> mention the serious agreement one needs about the "exists" 
> predicate and the implicit membership/is_a semantics. I 
> wonder how to use them. 

MW: Please elaborate on the "serious agreement" that is needed.

> Is there more to come?

MW: Well the title does say "First piece", so I hope so, as time permits.
> 
> --Robert Meersman
> 
> 
> >
> >Matthew,
> >
> >	Please see my comments below.
> >
> >-Ian
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: West, Matthew MR SSI-GREA-UK 
> >> [mailto:Matthew.R.West@is.shell.com]
> >> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 1:22 AM
> >> To: Standard-Upper-Ontology (E-mail)
> >> Subject: First piece of 4D ontology
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Dear Colleagues,
> >> 
> >> Please find below a first piece of a 4D ontology.
> >> 
> >> I'd like to thank Pat Hayes for reviewing some early drafts.
> >> 
> >> Comment text is of two types:
> >> 1. Translations into English of the KIF below. I assume that
> >>    eventually  automatic translation from KIF into e.g. ACE
> >>    will be possible for human interaction.
> >> 2. Structuring information, e.g. Subject Area, Theory, 
> Statement No.
> >>    These are things that I think we need to support engineering
> >>    an ontology (vs. saying what we mean) which I hope will be
> >>    supported by KIF before long.
> >> 
> >> Comments are welcomed.
> >> 
> >> ; Subject Area: Thing
> >> ;
> >> ; theory: individual and collection
> >> ; uses: 
> >> ;
> >> ; #1: 
> >> ;
> >> ; For all X, X is a thing.
> >> ;
> >> ; i.e. that which everything is a member of.
> >> ;
> >> ; Note 1: In First Order Logic there is no need to make any 
> >> declaration,
> >> ;         (forall ?x ...) is sufficient.
> >> ; Note 2: This means that all collections will be a 
> subclass of thing.
> >
> >This axiom also appears in the merged ontology.  There it 
> has the following
> >form:  (forall (?X) (instance-of ?X Entity))
> >
> >> ;
> >> ; #2: 
> >> ;
> >> ; for all X, if there exists a Y and Y is a member of X, 
> then X is a 
> >> ; member of collection.
> >> ;
> >> ; i.e. any thing that has a member is a collection.
> >> ;
> >> (forall ?x 
> >>    (=> (exists ?y 
> >>           (?x ?y)
> >>        ) 
> >>        (collection ?x)
> >>    )
> >> )
> >> ; Note: This (?x ?y) is not valid SUO-KIF today, but I 
> understand it 
> >> ;       will be in the near future.
> >
> >You could express (?x ?y) as (instance-of ?y ?x), which is 
> syntactically
> >well-formed SUO-KIF.  However, it is also not a first-order 
> sentence.  
> >
> >I'm wondering what you mean by "collection" in your axiom.  
> I thought we
> >were using this term to denote things like wolf packs, 
> football teams, etc.,
> >which are set-like, in that they have members, but, unlike 
> sets, they have a
> >spatio-temporal location.  However, if this is what you 
> mean, then you
> >exclude sets and classes, which have members but are not 
> collections in the
> >sense just explained.
> >
> >> ;
> >> ; #3:
> >> ;
> >> ; For all X, X is an individual, or X is a class.
> >> ;
> >> ; i.e. everything is either an individual or a class
> >> ;
> >> (forall ?x 
> >>    (or (individual ?x)
> >>        (collection ?x)
> >>    )
> >> )
> >
> >Note that axiom #3 is redundant, since it is logically 
> entailed by axiom #4.
> >
> >> ;
> >> ; #4: 
> >> ;
> >> ; For all X, if X is a member of collection then X is not a 
> >> ; member of individual and vice versa.
> >> ;
> >> ; i.e. any thing that is not a collection is an individual, and 
> >> ;      vice-versa.
> >> ;
> >> (forall ?x
> >>     (<=> (collection ?x)
> >>          (not (individual ?x))
> >>     )
> >> )
> >
> >My earlier comment about "collection" applies here as well, 
> since this axiom
> >appears to rule out sets and classes.
> >
> >> ;
> >> ; end theory
> >> ;
> >> ; end subject area
> >> 
> >> Regards  
> >>       Matthew
> >> ============================================================
> >> Matthew West 
> >> Operations & Asset Management - Shell Services International
> >> Shell Visiting Professor, The Keyworth Institute
> >> 
> >> H3229, Shell Centre, London, SE1 7NA, UK.
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> >> 
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> >> ============================================================
> >> 
> >
> >
> 
> 

Regards  
      Matthew
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Operations & Asset Management - Shell Services International
Shell Visiting Professor, The Keyworth Institute

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