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RE: [ontac-dev] Representation of attributes

To: ONTAC Taxonomy-Ontology Development Discussion <ontac-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Smith, Barry" <phismith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:23:57 -0500
Message-id: <phismith$67.20.232.145$.7.0.1.0.2.20060201102242.048da608@xxxxxxxxxxx>
At 10:15 AM 2/1/2006, you wrote:
>If we are in agreement that a process ("Matthew living his life") has an
>object ("Matthew") that is modified to reach different states through that
>process - can not the process itself have different sub-processes (I
>believe the agreed to answer here is yes), and are those sub-processes
>distinguishable from each other through the exhibition of different
>attributes?  This question was being discussed about a week or two back,
>before the group got preoccupied with defining a type.    (01)

Yes of course.
Matthew's childhood is a subprocess of Matthew's life, in which 
Matthew is involved throughout.
Matthew's childhood has different attributes from Matthew's 
adulthood. For example his childhood began earlier.
BS    (02)


>Chuck
>
> > >
> > >MW: If the pictures were of the same object, then they would all look
> > >the same, but they do not. This is because they are pictures of states
> > >of me at different times in my life. The states are different, and this
> > >is why the pictures are different, but the states are all states of my
> > >life, which is why they are all pictures of me.
> >
> > Aha: "pictures of states of me at different times in my life"
> > So Matthew HAS a life. And he (Matthew) is experiencing different
> > states at different times in this life.
> > Very good.
> > BS
>
>
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