Re: SUO: RE: CYC event vs. SUMO Process -- really different?
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 08:59:49AM -0700, Richard Cooper wrote:
> Not having learned the complexities of OpenCyc or SUMO, it
> seems bad design to either
>
> 1. Require events to occur at locations (in regions) because
> there are events that are not spatial at all, e.g.,
> "what if Bob thought about Mary's birthday party?"
> is a hypothetical, with no spatial relationships at all.
It's also not an event in the relevant sense. In your question "what
if Bob...", you are wondering about what would have been the case had a
certain event *type* been realized. Types are abstract, so indeed
nonspatial and nontemporal. But I take it OpenCyc and SUMO are talking
about event *tokens*, all of which (plausibly, anyway) occur in a region
of space-time. Thinking events, in particular, occur between the ears.
Chris Menzel