tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 30 19:03:11 1996
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Re: My two cents.
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: My two cents.
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 22:05:22 -0500
Marc Ruehlaender writes:
>maybe "to be situated" (not in a financial sense) is a better
>example. Do you think that
>
>"It is situated." "It is not situated." "Is it situated?"
>
>are complete sentences?
Yes, I do think they are complete sentences. They are considering
the state of an object, not its location. If something is "situated",
it has a definite location. If something is not "situated", it does
not have a definite location.
>Shouldn't they be
>"It is sit. somewhere/nowhere." "Where is ist sit.?"
Only if you are concerned about where it is located, and not
whether or not it is located at all. If you're asking if it
has a location, you don't need to ask "where".
If I'm discussing a computer simulation which involves setting up
a number of objects and placing them at certain coordinates, there
might be a time at which the objects' locations haven't yet been
initialized, and they are not "situated" from the point of view of
the simulation.
Quantum physics gives us a real-world example of something which
can be "situated" or not, depending on what sort of knowledge one
has about its state. An electron has position and momentum; if
we have complete information about its momentum, the electron has
no definite position. It is not "situated" at all.
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