John F. Sowa wrote: (01)
>
> But there are certain things that are pretty safe bets:
>
> 1. There will be categories called Time, Space, Object,
> Process, etc.
>
> 2. There will be some assumptions common to all the
> axiomatizations: time will have a before and
> after, and space will have 3 dimensions.
>
> 3. But beyond that, all bets are off. It would be
> a mistake to adopt situation calculus instead of
> pi calculus for reasoning about time; (02)
It's a mistake to make claims without backing them up with actual axioms. (03)
PSL (which contains an axiomatization of situation calculus as one of
its theories)
is a first-order axiomatization that has been proven sound and complete
with respect
to a set of intended models. This axiomatization has been used in numerous
semantic integration platforms as well as theorem proving
implementations for
reasoning about activities. (04)
I have not seen a comparable first-order axiomatization of the pi-calculus. (05)
It is also misleading to say that situation calculus is used to reason
about time.
A time ontology is used to reason about time; the situation calculus is
used to
reason about activities, their preconditions and effects. (06)
> it would be
> a mistake to insist on either 3D or 4D treatments
> of space-time; it would be a mistake to insist
> that objects are "ontologically prior" to processes;
> it would be a mistake to say that a vase and the
> lump of clay from which it is made must be or must
> not be considered different entities. (07)
Again, where are the axioms that distinguish the 3D vs 4D approaches? (08)
>
> That's why the only thing you can insist on is a very
> sparse, very limited set of common axioms. At that
> level, you can't do much problem-oriented reasoning.
> (09)
Show me the axioms!! (010)
- michael (011)
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