Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!BBN.COM!sas From: sas@BBN.COM Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: Smoliar's metaphor Message-ID: <19880625192558.2.NICK@INTERLAKEN.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 25 Jun 88 19:25:00 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 Approved: ailist@ai.ai.mit.edu Date: Wed, 22 Jun 88 13:46 EDT From: sas@BBN.COM To: AIList@ai.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu (Stephen Smoliar) Subject: Smoliar's metaphor In Volume 7, Issue 41, Stephen Smoliar presents an interesting metaphor, relating the components of a knowledge representation system to the parts of speech. In particular he described ACTIONS as verbs and TYPES as nouns. INSTANCES were merely described as "entities". I was wondering if it might work better to describe TYPES as "adjectives" and INSTANCES as "nouns"? If nothing else, it kind of makes one think. Just wondering, Seth