Re: [agi] uncountable nouns

2003-01-17 Thread Stephen Reed
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Pei Wang wrote: I'm working on a paper to compare predicate logic and term logic. One argument I want to make is that it is hard to infer on uncountable nouns in predicate logic, such as to derive ``Rain-drop is a kind of liquid'' from Water is a kind of liquid'' and

[agi] uncountable nouns

2003-01-14 Thread Pei Wang
I'm working on a paper to compare predicate logic and term logic. One argument I want to make is that it is hard to infer on uncountable nouns in predicate logic, such as to derive ``Rain-drop is a kind of liquid'' from Water is a kind of liquid'' and ``Rain-drop is a kind of water'', (which can