On the Semantics of Ongoing and Future Occurrence Identifiers

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Authors: Nicola Guarino

Tags: 2017, conceptual modeling

According to the standard wisdom, all temporal occurrences are considered as “frozen in time”. This means that all their properties are fully determined, and they can’t change. This is certainly true for historical occurrences, but, at least in the ordinary language, ongoing and future occurrences seem to admit the possibility of change: the score of an ongoing match may change in time, and a future trip may be delayed. But if ongoing and future events can change in time, what are their identifiers? In this paper I propose a tensed ontological account (contrasted with the dominant tenseless tradition) that provides an answer to this question.

Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-69904-2_36