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RE: [ontac-dev] Representation of attributes

To: "ONTAC Taxonomy-Ontology Development Discussion" <ontac-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "West, Matthew R SIPC-DFD/321" <matthew.west@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:24:29 -0000
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Dear Charles,    (01)

But this is not quite what I (at least) think.    (02)

See below    (03)

Matthew    (04)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ontac-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ontac-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Charles 
> D Turnitsa
> Sent: 01 February 2006 15:15
> To: ONTAC Taxonomy-Ontology Development Discussion
> Subject: RE: [ontac-dev] Representation of attributes
> 
> 
> If we are in agreement that a process ("Matthew living his 
> life") has an
> object ("Matthew")     (05)

MW: My living process is the me physical object. They are coincident at all
points in time.    (06)

> that is modified to reach different states 
> through that
> process     (07)

MW: There may also be external processes that have an effect.    (08)

> - 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?      (09)

MW: Thats OK with me. So we can have my digestive process, my circulatory
process etc. We can also have my youth and my old age.    (010)

> This question was being discussed about a week 
> or two back,
> before the group got preoccupied with defining a type.
> 
> 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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