Temporal views as abstract relations

A. Ramsay1
1Dept of Computation, UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology), Manchester, UK

Tóm tắt

Many natural languages use prepositions to mark relations between entities of various kinds-between physical entities and their spatial locations, between temporal entities and their temporal locations, between abstract entities of various kinds (e.g. between ideas and their 'mental locations'). I show that the consequences of using prepositions to relate temporal entities emerge naturally from the basic interpretations of the prepositions themselves together with a very weak logic of events, where I take it that prepositions denote abstract relations whose significance only emerges when properties of the related items are taken into consideration.

Từ khóa

#Physics computing #Natural languages #Logic #Dictionaries #Artificial intelligence #History #Eyes #Data mining #IEEE entities #Concrete

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