Thursday, January 5, 2012

On Roles, Attributes, and Definitions

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Dave Hay commented on my post How Many Attributes Do I Have?   Dave notes that there is a difference between me and the roles that I play.  ...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Legislating vs. Discovering Definitions: Radical Differences

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Most of my experience in doing definition work has mostly been from the perspective of an analyst involved in systems development.  These da...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

How Many Attributes Do I Have?

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Charact eristics of a concept - its attributes - are central to definitions.  But to what extent should the characteristics of a concept be ...
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Friday, December 30, 2011

The Problem of Pluto: What Is being Defined?

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I wanted to return to the issue of Pluto, which has already been the subject of a number of posts.  The International Astronomical Union (IA...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Three Classes of Identification in a Definition

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Stijn commented on my earlier post "What is an Identifying Characteristic?" ( http://definitionsinsemantics.blogspot.com/2011/11/w...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Role versus Relationship - What Does it Mean for Definitions?

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A couple of days ago I was reading some material on a semantics product and came upon the term "role".  We see role used in data m...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Is A Data Model An Abstraction?

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Rob brings up a good point in his comment on The Problem of Abstraction in Definitions of Data ( http://definitionsinsemantics.blogspot.com/...