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Re: ONT RE: Ontology case study




Bill,
   You could check out 
<http://ontology.teknowledge.com:8080/rsigma/SKB.jsp?req=SC&name=holdsDuring&skb=SUMO> 
for the full semantics, but informally it means that a proposition is true 
over a particular time period.  Temporal reasoning is a hard area so we'd 
welcome any specific advice for additional axioms needed or changes to 
existing axioms.

Adam


At 04:50 PM 5/30/2002 -0500, Bill Andersen wrote:
>On 5/30/02 15:20, "Adam Pease" <apease@ks.teknowledge.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Chris and Chris,
> >
> > At 06:36 AM 5/30/2002 -0500, Chris Menzel wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >
> >
> >>> CP> For example, as far as I can see (probably not very far) SUMO does
> >>> not have a straightforward distinction between properties that are
> >>> time-bound and properties that are not.
> >>
> >> That may be, though I suspect Ian would argue otherwise.
> >
> > No, there is no such distinction in the SUMO.  If a knowledge engineer
> > wants to state that the attribution of a property to an object holds only
> > for a limited time, he can wrap the attribution in a 'holdsDuring' formula.
>
>Hey, Adam..
>
>What are the semantics of 'holdsDuring'?  What about an unqualified atom:
>
>   (person bill)
>
>?

Adam Pease
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