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Abstract:
When reasoning about an incompletely known narrative of events, it’s necessary to employ event occurrence minimisation in order to get the expected results from standard temporal projection techniques. However, a blanket default assumption that the known event occurrences are the only event occurrences is rarely legitimate. A finer grain of minimisation is required, which takes into account the possibility of unknown events when the blanket default assumption is inapplicable. This paper outlines a mechanism for achieving this, based on John McCarthy’s recent proposal for formalising context.