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Mental Events

MENTAL-EVENTs are classified into EMOTIONAL-EVENTs, COGNITIVE-EVENTs, COMMUNICATIVE-EVENTs, and PERCEPTUAL-EVENTs. PERCEPTUAL-EVENTs are also under PHYSICAL-EVENTs and are classified into VOLUNTARY-PERCEPTUAL-EVENTs and INVOLUNTARY-PERCEPTUAL-EVENTs. COMMUNICATIVE-EVENTs are also listed under SOCIAL-EVENTs. In fact, one of its subclasses, NONVERBAL-COMMUNICATIVE-ACT is unique in that it is a mental, physical, and a social event. COGNITIVE-EVENTs are classified into ACTIVE-COGNITIVE-EVENTs and PASSIVE-COGNITIVE-EVENTs based on the presence of AGENTs and EXPERIENCER in them. As a rule, PASSIVE-COGNITIVE-EVENTs have only EXPERIENCERs; they do not have AGENTs. The classification of MENTAL-EVENTs is shown in Figure 10.

   
Figure 10: Parts of the Classification of Mental Events in the Ontology.



Kavi Mahesh
Wed Nov 8 14:51:16 MST 1995