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Re: SUO: Universal Time, other universals, and cultural contextofSUO.


>Pat,
>
>Every formal ontology, including your work on temporal axioms,
>starts with notions abstracted from NL.  The only difference between
>the ones used in expert systems and the ones used for NLP is in the
>problems they are designed to solve.

Well, we are not going to resolve this issue by email, so let us 
agree to disagree. I will  just therefore register my profound and 
deeply-felt disagreement with your view. I certainly am absolutely 
sure that my temporal and naive-physics work was not abstracted from 
NL, and most of my own everyday thinking is so unconnected with NL 
that I often find it hard to even express it in language.

I suspect that there are genuine individual differences here between 
people. I know many academics who feel that their entire mental life 
is almost conducted in language. I know mine is not.

Pat

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