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Q2. John McCarthy:

I would have thought that representing contexts as fixpoints would give you more problems that by other methods, for example as explicit objects. Can you compute the fixpoint?

A2. Fiora Pirri:

Yes, of course.

Q3. Tom Costello:

Your argument that contexts are implicit is based on them not being mentioned in natural language. However, that argument is irrelevant, and if accepted it could be applied against very many constructs in current work in our field. Wouldn't it be better to represent contexts by amalgamation, starting with small ones and composing larger ones from them?

A3. Fiora Pirri:

One would then have the problem of how to design those elementary contexts in order that they do the right thing when composed. We do not have a methodology for finding out the right level of refinement.

Q5. François Lévy:

What happens when viewpoints are inconsistent?

A5. Fiora Pirri:

That is OK, they do not have to be consistent.

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