[topicmapmail] association source

[Bernard Vatant]

Peter, Graham, Lars Marius, Robert ...

Thanks for the "reification" chorus. What else could I wait anyway?

The thread is closed for me. "L'affaire est entendue"

Bernard

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De : "Lars Marius Garshol" <larsga@garshol.priv.no>
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Envoyé : mercredi 15 mai 2002 14:36
Objet : Re: [topicmapmail] association source


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> * Peter Ring
> |
> | E.g. in a legal application, in many cases [sic] it will be very
> | useful to have a standard way to express the source of an
> | association; "who says so" is often as interesting as what they say.
> |
> | Of course you might also need represent some knowledge about how
> | they said so, when they said so, where they said so, etc.
>
> I agree absolutely. The requirement that Bernard presents is an old
> and well-accepted one, and, as Graham says, the way to address it is
> to use reification. The reason why reification is the way to go is
> precisely because you what you say: there's no limit to the kinds of
> things you may want to say about the association. The best way to
> handle that is to use topics, because there's no limit to what you can
> say about topics.
>
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