NON-INTERACTING EVENTS

Allowing the addition of a description of a second phenomenon that doesn't interact with the first. In this case the conclusions that can be drawn about the combined narrative are just the conjunction of the conclusions about the component narratives. To infer the obvious consequences of events we need to assume that some other events do not occur. In this paper, a major novelty is that we do not assume that no other events occur. We only state that there are no events that would cause an event in our narrative to fail. Thus a narrative about stacking blocks will state that the only block moving actions are those mentioned. A block stacking narrative will not say that no traveling events occur. Nor will a narrative about traveling makes claims about what block stacking events happen. This allows non-interacting narratives to be consistently conjoined.

Previous proposals could not conjoin two narratives, as they either assumed that the events that happened were picked out by the result function, or they assumed that the only events that occurred were those mentioned.

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