Recent work in temporal reasoning tends to reduce events to mere time intervals, or intervals cum description. In this paper we follow the opposite strategy, arguing that the formal connection between the way events are perceived to be ordered and the underlying temporal dimension is essentially that of a construction of a linear ordering from the mereotopological properties of an orientable structure including events as bona fide individuals. the account is expressed as a first-order theory using the primitives of parthood and boundary and can be extended - we venture to claim - to proide a similar treatment of spatial entities such as physical bodies and masses
Mereo-Topological Construction of Time from Events
Pianesi, Fabio;
1994-01-01
Abstract
Recent work in temporal reasoning tends to reduce events to mere time intervals, or intervals cum description. In this paper we follow the opposite strategy, arguing that the formal connection between the way events are perceived to be ordered and the underlying temporal dimension is essentially that of a construction of a linear ordering from the mereotopological properties of an orientable structure including events as bona fide individuals. the account is expressed as a first-order theory using the primitives of parthood and boundary and can be extended - we venture to claim - to proide a similar treatment of spatial entities such as physical bodies and massesI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
