Re: Converses (Re: Availability of the ANSI standard proposal?)
phayes@uiuc.edu (Pat Hayes)
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 15:43:20 -0600
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From: phayes@uiuc.edu (Pat Hayes)
Subject: Re: Converses (Re: Availability of the ANSI standard proposal?)
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>>From Pat Hayes:
>>This raises another issue, however. Its all very well to say that only one
>>ordering needs to be kept and not the converses, but how is it specified
>>what the canonical ordering IS?
>
>The system has to pick one. It doesn't particularly matter which one;
>then the other converses can be defined in terms of it.
>
Yes of course, but thats not the problem, which is how does it represent to
itself which is the one it has picked. Heres this relation:
CanTalkLongerThanInThePresenceOf(x,y,z,u)
between four people (a speaker, an addresee and an audience of two). Which
is which?
Pat
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