Re: [ontolog-forum] Intensional relation

[Matthew Kaufman <mkfmncom@xxxxxxxxx>]

FYI Plain language may be reference to http://plainlanguage.gov resources?

In government, there is such a thing and definition of "PLAIN LANGUAGE"

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Rich Cooper <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In my limited contact with the medical and life sciences communities, it

has been my experience that the "plain language" is not by any means

"plain".  The language is created by introducing a new term for every

combination of properties that is of interest, either by defining a new

"property", or more commonly by defining a new "class" that inherits

every property but one from some subsuming cl ass and adds the one new

property.  The result is a language in which most of the sentences are

fairly simple and structurally easy to understand, but they depend on a

huge proliferation of terms to accomplish that simplicity.  The concepts

are no less complex, and it requires looking at 5 definitions to

determine what was said.

 

This approach is the reverse of mathematical notations, which create a

grammar that allows complex statements to be unambiguously written, and

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