[topicmapmail] SAM question

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* jalgermissen@topicmapping.com
| 
| What I understood from N0396 is that it is a property of the
| information item and thus it is explcitly NOT a relationship. To me,
| this design decision reflects the idea that the relationship between
| an item (e.g. baseName item) and the topic that represents the type
| is not recognized as a subject. Simply said: The authors of N0396
| decided that no statements may be made about these relationship.
| 
| Lars, does that make sense?

Yes, you've got it exactly right.

You do use some rather specialized terminology that may not be known
to everyone else, though. I'd say that the base name.[type] property
has no identity, and so cannot be reified. I'm pretty sure that this
is the same as what you mean when you say that it is not a
relationship and that it cannot be a subject. Certainly we agree on
your last sentence.

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