Temporal Views as Abstract Relations Allan Ramsay   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Temporal Representation and Reasoning in AI 3 Abstract Many natural languages use prepositions to mark relations between entities of various kinds-between physical entities and their spatial locations, between temporal entities and their temporal locations, between abstract entities of various kinds (e.g. between ideas and their 'mental locations'). I show that the consequences of using prepositions to relate temporal entities emerge naturally from the basic interpretations of the prepositions themselves together with a very weak logic of events, where I take it that prepositions denote abstract relations whose significance only emerges when properties of the related items are taken into consideration. DiSC'03 © 2003 Association for Computing Machinery