Are situations part of reality?

Note, that we did not consider situations as parts of reality. This is a brake with Barwisean situation theory. Motion, actions, events are without beginning or end. Reality is a continuous process. Although motion, actions and events occur over time, and therefore are not instantaneous or eternal, every action, motion or event succeeds and precedes another. One may argue, that motion and action have a start, a beginning, a so-called first cause, but this cause is beyond reach of human understanding. The same applies to the end of all actions and events. We exist therefore in a continuous reality.

Although reality is continuous, our perception is not. We seem to be unable to comprehend the whole of this continuous reality. Therefore we brake up reality into discrete pieces, with starts and stops. We believe certain entities to exist between those pieces, entities we described as situoids, and sometimes they are called events. This braking up into pieces is totally subjective. The starts and stops is what we call ``situations''. ``These boundaries of events are, of course, even more artificial and contrived than events themselves. Events do contain a portion of reality. Situations, on the other hand, do not. As boundaries, they have time-space locations, but while the space locations are necessarily extended [...], the time dimensions are not extended. Situations are, indeed, motion and action imagined to a standstill, movers and actors occupying space but deprived of their denoted characteristics.''riker

As a result of this, we end up with another axiom, namely that every situoid defines at least two situations, an initial situation and a terminal situation.

Axiom 5.36  

\begin{displaymath}\begin{split}\forall x \left( Situoid(x) \land chrs(x)=c \rig...
...)=b_2 \land lb(c,b_1) \land rb(c,b_2)\right)\right) \end{split}\end{displaymath}    

leechuck 2005-04-19