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Q1. General discussion (7.1):

What you call "situations" in your approach does not appear to be similar to situations as used in situation calculus. So what are they? Can they be understood as "histories", so that  Holds-at(p, t, s)  should be read as saying that  p  is true at time  t  in the history  s ?

A1. J. Joachim Quantz:

Yes, but notice that the set of situations or histories is branching, so that two situations/ histories may be identical up to a point in time, and differ from there on.

Q2. Erik Sandewall:

I like this; it allows us to reason about alternative futures with a moderate extension of the previous machinery. However, one obvious limitation is that beliefs can only be expressed relative to objective timepoints. There is no way of representing believed time. Do you have any suggestion about how the proposed framework can be extended so as to make this possible?

A2. J. Joachim Quantz:

This is a topic for our further research.

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