Dear Martin,

These are very interesting and suggestive considerations.
I will definitely treasure them.

Bests,
Achille

> Il giorno 27 mar 2021, alle ore 11:32, Martin Doerr <[email protected]> ha 
> scritto:
> 
> Hi Achille,
> 
> That is basically no problem. It can quite easily be formulated in FOL that 
> at least one of the Units must be an A2, and it should be in the scope note. 
> Anyway, lack of knowledge may require that the necessary A2 is not 
> documented. In that case, the FOL can make sure that one can infer such lack 
> of knowledge.
> 
> More generally, as Nicola Guarino has written in his foundational paper, 
> formal ontologies try to minimize unintended applications, but cannot 
> completely exclude them.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Martin
> 
> On 3/26/2021 10:23 PM, Achille Felicetti wrote:
>> Dear Martin, Christian-Emil,
>> 
>> Thank you for the interesting insights. For the scenario described by Martin 
>> I fully agree with what he writes and surely it makes sense to consider an 
>> embedding as distributed among different layers in the very common case in 
>> which it spans over multiple and stratigraphic strata of different kind (A2 
>> + A3).
>> 
>> However, the problem that I see is formal, since changing the range of AP19 
>> would allow the definition of triples like the following:
>> 
>> (X is-a A7 embedding) —> AP19 is embedding in —> (Y is-a A3 Stratigraphic 
>> Interface)
>> 
>> that will become formally correct from the point of view of the model, but 
>> conceptually disputable in my opinion.
>> 
>> I can't think of a solution that accommodates everything.
>> 
>> Best,
>> A.
>> 
>>> Il giorno 26 mar 2021, alle ore 19:35, Martin Doerr via Crm-sig 
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> ha scritto:
>>> 
>>> Dear Christian-Emil, Achille,
>>> 
>>> When talking about embeddings, I am not so much thinking of an isolated 
>>> item, but things like the Talheim Death Pit with thousands of bones, where 
>>> each exact position is vital for the assignment to complete corpses.
>>> 
>>> I am also thinking of a thing embedded by multiple layers. First the lower 
>>> half, then the upper half. Should somehow be consistent with the physical 
>>> relations. The first would provide the chronology when the deposition 
>>> started.
>>> 
>>> We can think of sets of Amphorae, upright metal objects or so, tall enough 
>>> to be embedded by multiple layers.
>>> 
>>> This would justify embedding in A8, and A3 interfaces taking part in the 
>>> embedding, just as considering intersections of A3 Interfaces as physical 
>>> relations.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> Martin
>>> 
>>> On 3/26/2021 4:49 PM, Christian-Emil Smith Ore via Crm-sig wrote:
>>>> You are quite correct, it would be a 2-dimentional embedding. In the 2D 
>>>> world a pencil stroke is a unpassable hindrance.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On the other hand  AP 9 is not a total property. And also not all persons 
>>>> can give birth at least not now.
>>>> 
>>>> C-E
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> From: Achille Felicetti <[email protected]> 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: 26 March 2021 11:30
>>>> To: Christian-Emil Smith Ore
>>>> Cc: crm-sig
>>>> Subject: Re: [Crm-sig] CRMarcheo -embedding
>>>>  
>>>> Dear Christian-Emil,
>>>> 
>>>> I understand the practical need of this operation, but I also fear that 
>>>> this may cause further conceptual inconsistencies since, I imagine, in no 
>>>> way an embedding can be embedded in an A3 as the latter is a feature.
>>>> 
>>>> I think it would be more fruitful to apply a constrain on the use of A2 in 
>>>> case an A7 is instantiated … Is this reasonable?
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> A.
>>>> 
>>>>> Il giorno 26 mar 2021, alle ore 09:27, Christian-Emil Smith Ore via 
>>>>> Crm-sig <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> ha scritto:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>> In issue 447 the SIG has decided to make A7 Embedding a subclass of  S20. 
>>>>> Ok. 
>>>>> In many excavations  archaeologists record structures without specifying 
>>>>> layer (A2) versus surface (A3). Therefore such documented things can only 
>>>>> be modelled as instances of the A8, the superclass of A2 and A3. 
>>>>> Currently
>>>>> AP19 is embedding in (contains embedding) [[D: A7 Embedding; R: A2 
>>>>> Stratigraphic Volume Unit]
>>>>> To be able to document an embedding in the documentation described above, 
>>>>> it would be beneficial to lift the range of AP19 to A8 Archeological Unit:
>>>>> AP19 is embedding in (contains embedding) [[D: A7 Embedding; R: A8 A8 
>>>>> Archeological Unit​]
>>>>> 
>>>>> Comments?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Christian-Emil
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