Aspect was the word that sprang to mind, even before I read that you
were considering it. In another context (formal specification of
software), I have also used Trait. (01)
Jim H. (02)
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Hello, (04)
I realize that this is not necessarily the most salient topic for this
forum, but all of the field experts whose opinion I would trust are
here,
so I'll take advantage. (05)
I have been working for a couple of years now in the area of
ontological
representation and ontological modeling, and I have a component based
theory that I use for my work. It is one of the pieces of my PhD work,
and
serves a couple of useful purposes for projects I work on. The model
takes
the approach of having a taxonomy, with entities and relationships, to
model the knowledge and process of a domain - and to show semantic
relations between entities (other than subsumption relationships) where
appropriate. The two added components that I have been working on are
rules formalizing the application of those semantic relations, and a way
to
model the meaning of an entity by trying to capture its aspects, which I
have referred to as concepts. (06)
By concepts, here I mean a universal, non-divisible idea. This
"concept"
when combined with others forms the definition of an entity. (07)
The problem I have is that the word Concept is much too overloaded in
our
community, so I am frequently at a loss to get past assumptions about
its
definition. One of my possible solutions is to use the word Aspect
instead, but I don't want to clear up one problem by starting another. (08)
Any suggestions or observations? (09)
Chuck (010)
Charles Turnitsa
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Old Dominion University Research Foundation
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