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The purpose of this chapter is to use the action types described in Chap. 10 to define basic generic dyadic transformations which are formalizations of the causal aspects of physical actions, and of interpretations which can be used to express possible intentions of the agent.
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The naming of the elementary intervention types are slightly different from those used by von Wright. An example: the type \(\neg pTpI\neg p\) i.e. “make p happen” is named “produce p” by von Wright. Producing has connotation to intentions and causality whereas making only has connotations to causality. The names shown in Table 11.2 have therefore been chosen to express the causal interpretation of actions, and von Wrights terms produce, destroy, maintain and suppress are used to express intentional aspects of doings.
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The meaning of \(\neg p\) is here according to the rules of propositional logic. The semantic problems is a consequences of ignoring Bergson’s argument against negation mentioned in Sect. 11.3.
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Lind, M. (2024). Dyadic Transformations. In: Foundations for Functional Modeling of Technical Artefacts. Design Research Foundations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45918-4_11
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