Dear Barry, (01)
> I also submit that, given the need to acquire users of whatever
> results from our work, most of whom will not be specialists in
> ontology, the need to be consistent with a four-dimensionalist
> ontology according to which there are no dogs but only doggy
> processes, is not a sensible constraint. (02)
If this gross misrepresentation of a 4D position were true then
this might be reasonable. Fortunately it is just a misrepresentation
which you rather boringly put on 4 Dimensionalists so that you can
make fun of it. It is an old trick which I find not really very
clever. (03)
Regards (04)
Matthew West
Reference Data Architecture and Standards Manager
Shell International Petroleum Company Limited
Shell Centre, London SE1 7NA, United Kingdom (05)
Tel: +44 20 7934 4490 Mobile: +44 7796 336538
Email: matthew.west@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.shell.com
http://www.matthew-west.org.uk/ (06)
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