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RE: SUO: Re: Formal SUMO Draft




Doug,
   The point here is not the particular example.  You made a claim that 
"the conformance as stipulated militates against interesting and useful 
elaboration."  I provided an example of a conforming elaboration.  One 
could certainly provide additional conforming elaboration for social 
giving, giving something as part of an exchange in kind, giving for 
political favors, giving money in exchange for a tangible good etc, but 
that's not the point.

Adam

At 04:12 PM 2/5/2002 -0800, Douglas McDavid wrote:

>Adam --
>
>How does this differentiate charitable giving from, say, social giving
>(e.g. a birthday present)?
>
>
>Doug
>
>
>Adam Pease <apease@ks.teknowledge.com> on 02/05/2002 12:56:47 PM
>
>To:    Douglas McDavid/Boulder/IBM@IBMUS
>cc:    standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org
>Subject:    RE: SUO: Re: Formal SUMO Draft
>
>
>
>Doug,
>    Let's make an example of an interesting elaboration then.
>
>(=>
>     (and
>        (instance ?GIVE CharitableGiving)
>        (agent ?GIVE ?AGENT)
>        (recipient ?GIVE ?REC)
>        (patient ?GIVE ?OBJ))
>     (and
>        (wants ?REC ?OBJ)
>        (inScopeOfInterest ?AGENT ?REC)))
>
>(disjoint CharitableGiving Transaction)
>
>Here are two axioms that create a new class of CharitableGiving, and define
>it in terms of other SUMO terms.  It is an interesting elaboration and it
>is a conforming one according to my proposed conformance statement.
>
>Adam

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