On Thu, July 7, 2011 12:37, Mike Bennett said: (01)
> There is no problem describing financial products ontologically.
> Calipers are not a requirement. All financial products are
> contracts, and contracts are a real thing (02)
Agreed. (03)
> regardless of whether
> they consist of paper in a vault (as a few still do) or are
> maintained electronically. (04)
Here is where one has to be careful. A contract is an agreement which
is documented in certain ways. English consistently uses words with
multiple meanings. In the case of "conceptual works", English usually
uses the same word for the work and for physical instantiations of that
work. A contract, book, poem, or law maintains its existence whether or
not written forms of them are maintained or destroyed. So yes, the piece
of paper or electronic record can be called a "contract" -- but those
contracts are not the agreements to which people are bound; they are
documentary evidence of the existence of agreements. (05)
So i would maintain that the financial product is intangible. (06)
> If you don't think contracts are real, try breaking one :)
>
> The dimensions along which they are defined are, as you rightly
> suggest, where it gets interesting. One look at the ISO 10962
> Classification of Financial Instruments standard will show what a
> challenge it is to try and articificially shoe-horn the whole lot
> into one dimension - you simply can't. (07)
Of course. (08)
-- doug foxvog (09)
> Mike
>
> On 07/07/2011 16:21, David Eddy wrote:
>> John -
>>
>> On 2011-07-06, at 12:45 PM, John F. Sowa wrote:
>>
>>> And a warning: Unless you can find an immutable law of nature
>>> that creates a classification, don't expect it to be a solid
>>> foundation for a "standard ontology".
>> Agreed.
>>
>> My view of (imagined) reality has been largely financial services
>> (e.g. mutual funds, brokerage, banking,& various forms of
>> insurance). In my career, I have only worked directly for a single
>> firm that actually made a physical product (junk jewelry)...
>> otherwise everything has been paper pushing, describing various
>> facets of non-dimensional products.
>>
>> Quite naturally, since these industries are all conjured out of thin
>> air, there are no natural laws to impose organizational discipline.
>>
>> From what I've seen, "organization" is largely the last minute panic
>> to make the next deadline. Does tend to leave a chaotic residue
>> which only gets worse over time.
>>
>>
>> Since this ontology interest has arisen, it has been rattling around
>> in the back of my mind if ontologies can be applied to things like
>> financial "products."
>>
>>
>> Personally I vacillate between describing financial "products" as
>> either "non-dimensional" or "N-dimensional." In any case these
>> products are stuff that cannot be put on a scale& weighted or have a
>> caliper applied to them. It's just information which as far as I
>> know we have no idea how to measure other than silly things like
>> "lines of code."
>>
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