Table 5 Additional temporal entities in Scenario 1
From: Diagnosis, misdiagnosis, lucky guess, hearsay, and more: an ontological analysis
Temporal identifier | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
t14 | The interval during which the anatomical entity (IUI-5) is part of the cognitive system (IUI-4) | This interval is not easily specified given the current state of neuroscience. It could be different than t3 and t4. |
t15 | The interval during which the clinical picture (IUI-12) is used in the interpretive process (IUI-11) | Could be shorter than t11 |
t16 | The point in time at which the cognitive representation (IUI-6) and diagnosis (IUI-8) begin to exist | t16 ends t11. Because the ICE does not exist until the cognitive representation—its first concretization—exists, this is also the point in time at which the diagnosis begins to exist. |
t17 | The interval during which the cognitive representation (IUI-6) participates in the writing process (IUI-13) | |
t18 | The interval during which the diagnosis (IUI-8) participates in the writing process (IUI-13) | It is possible that the original cognitive representation (IUI-6) gets copied elsewhere in the brain for reasoning and thus that the ICE continues to participate after the initial cognitive representation |
t19 | The interval during which that which is written on paper (IUI-10) begins to exist until it exists in full | The writing process begins earlier than the time at which the sentence begins to exist: the author starts the process with getting a pen and paper, any preparation necessary (“clicking” the pen), etc. |