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    Representing the kinetic state of a patient (posture, motion, and activity) during vital sign measurement is an important part of continuous monitoring applications, especially remote monitoring applications. In contextualized vital sign representation, the measurement result is presented in conjunction with salient measurement context metadata. We present an automated annotation system for vital sign measurements that uses ontologies from the Open Biomedical Ontology Foundry (OBO Foundry) to re…Read more
  • Supposition, Reference and Nonexistence

    --- The Supposition Problem and Its Solutions



    I. The supposition Problem

    Peter is a real person. Now, imagine that it WERE the case that Peter does not exist. The following inference shows that we seem facing a problem given certain ordinarily acceptable philosophical assumptions.



    [1] Peter does not exist. (Supposition)

    [2] If P, then “P” is true. (Tarski Truth Schema)

    [3]”Peter does not exist” is true. ([1] & [2])

    [4] If “P” is true then “P” expresses a proposit…

















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