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Re: [ontolog-forum] Why most classifications are fuzzy

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From: "doug foxvog" <doug@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:11:58 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, July 7, 2011 12:49, Chris Partridge said:
>> On 07 July 2011 17:31, doug foxvog said
>> On Thu, July 7, 2011 11:21, David Eddy said:
>> > ...
>> > Personally I vacillate between describing financial "products" as
>> > either "non-dimensional" or "N-dimensional."    (01)

>> They have zero spatial dimensions, but a multitude of other dimensions
> (i.e., properties).    (02)

> Is this true?
> Is the idea that financial "products" have no spatial dimensions but some
> temporal dimensions? E.g. A Security trade that has a trade date, value
> date and settlement date (and actual delivery date) -
> so it plainly has some temporal dimensions.    (03)

Agreed.    (04)

> I have always assumed that these financial products were a process which
> involved the dealers making the trade, the back office arranging the
> settlement, etc. - and this certainly has a spatial dimension.    (05)

I see financial products as being created by a process, but being distinct
from the process that created them.    (06)

-- doug f    (07)

>> > 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."    (08)

>> A possible "measurement" could be monetary value.  But most properties
>> would not be measured ones.    (09)

>> -- doug f
>>
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