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In what follows I consider the apparent contrast between two kinds of theories of context: a theory of objective context — exemplified in the works of Kaplan and Lewis — and a theory of subjective context-exemplified in the works of McCarthy and Giunchiglia. I consider then some difficulties for the objective theory. I don’t give any formalization; instead I give some theoretical points about the problem. A possible result could be the abandon of the double indexing for a development a multi-context theory (I give an example of a case). However other results could be possible and a challenge is posed to solve problems using the best results from each tradition of research.
The main ideas of this paper have been discussed in a talk at Pittsburgh Center for the Philosophy of Science during 1998; I wish to thank Horacio Arló Costa, Paolo Bouquet, Michael Green, Marcello Frixione and some unknown referees for their very useful comments
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Penco, C. (1999). Objective and Cognitive Context. In: Bouquet, P., Benerecetti, M., Serafini, L., Brézillon, P., Castellani, F. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1688. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48315-2_21
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