Re: Comments on Pat's comments

From: pat hayes (phayes@ai.uwf.edu)
Date: 04/04/03

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    >[[ I'm sending this just to daml-time@daml.org.  If that means someone
    >obvious is missing, let me know. ]]
    >
    >Comments on Pat's comments:
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    >More specific Hayes comments:
    >
    >    >4.  There is a treatment of temporal aggregates.  Comments solicited.
    >
    >    On the other hand, this seems too complicated. Maybe Im not seeing
    >    the reasons for the complexity, but using set theory seems like
    >    overkill right at the start. BTW, the 'clocks and calendars' section
    >    4 of my old time-survey memo has a treatment of some of these issues.
    >
    >Where might that old memo be?
    
    In two parts:
    
    http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/users/phayes/TimeCatalog1.ps
    http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/users/phayes/TimeCatalog2.ps
    
    >    BTW, a general point: some of the complexity of parts of this can be
    >    eliminated by using CL rather than a conventional FO syntax.
    >
    >Or by using a typed lambda-calculus.
    
    Types REDUCE complexity? I'll believe it when I see it.
    
    Pat
    
    
    
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