This section will be removed from the final paper. It is included now only so that its remarks will appear when the document is latexed.
The word ``but'' can play a role in narrative. Suppose an event leads to a situation, but the properties being asserted about the situation are not what would normally follow from the occurrence of the event. Perhaps a good narrative should label the anomalous fluents of the new situation with ``but''.
cannot
We have not yet treated being able to prove that a person cannot accomplish something or that something cannot happen. The easiest way to think about this may be to have Junior try to prevent Daddy from doing something.
quotes from Russell and Bell
common sense informatic situation
facts vs. what is known
It seems that < should not be transitive. Narratives should be objects.
Fluents should be inferred to persist as long as there is no event in the narrative or directly following from the narrative that would change this.
It may be advantageous to treat processes by introducing a fluents that persist and whose persistence determines that some secondary fluents change in a specified way, e.g.
We need to be able to declare some fluents as dependent on others so that their change or persistence is not inferred separately, e.g.
Actually it might suffice to write
Probably Vladimir has thought about this possibility and should be asked. Whether a fluent is dependent may depend on context. Maybe we should distinguish between asserting the dependence of fluents and that of functions whose value is a fluent (as in the present example).
It looks like we may need priorities to handle the rules about what persists because of the narrative or what follows from the narrative.
Somehow he got to Moscow after losing his ticket. What is the semantics of ``somehow''?
Events: losing ticket buying ticket moving block selling block sending telegram with messaage sending money fly(x,y)
Can these be handled in a uniform way? An event is realized by a sequence of subevents, actually by a subnarrative. Indeed suppose that how a person performs an action involves delegating some of the work to another person. It is usually unnecessary to completely specify the sequential or temporal relations of the work performed by the different people.
The biggest strain on the single history interpretation will come with counterfactuals or trying to compare the outcomes of different strategies. That's where the free will approximation comes in. Thus free will is an approximate theory in a determinist world.
