Circularity between actOfPlanning and plannedAct #176
Description
cco:ActOfPlanning "A Planned Act that involves making a Plan to achieve some specified Objective."
cco:IntentionalAct "An Act in which at least one Agent plays a causative role and which is prescribed by some Directive Information Content Entity held by at least one of the Agents."
On the assumption IntentionalAct = PlannedAct (as seems the case in the new release), the DICE mentioned in the definition of IntentionalAct/PlannedAct is some Plan.
If so, then 'Act of planning' is a 'planned act' in a problematic way. Specifically, an act of planning requires a plan, and, of course, to get a plan you need some previous act of planning. Therefore, some act of planning requires some previous act of planning. But the previous act of planning itself requires a prior act of planning, and so on.
Put another way: definitions of processes should be success terms (they should specify the conditions under which it is true that a certain process has occurred). But for there to be a successful act of planning, there needs to be a successful planned act, and for that successful planned act, there needs to have been a successful act of planning, and so on.