[sc34wg3] Re: SAM-issue term-scope-def (Nikita Ogievetsky)

[Sam Hunting]

> Message: 1
> From: "Nikita Ogievetsky" <nogievet@cogx.com>
> To: <sc34wg3@isotopicmaps.org>
> Subject: Re: [sc34wg3] SAM-issue term-scope-def
> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:35:38 -0700
> Reply-To: sc34wg3@isotopicmaps.org
> 
> But there is certainly some set of axioms that we use to make our judgments.
> This set of axioms could be called "Processing Model".
> Interestingly enough it sounds that neither RM, nor SAM pretend to cover it.
> So may be there is a place for an independent "PM" model that should
> answer questions like "what does <two lines are parallel> mean".
> Actually at some point I offered a name "tom-tom" for it (theoretical model
> for topic maps)
> also because construction of some tom-toms resemble graphs - a set of
> connected drums.
> I think Bernard's questions should be a good start.
> TMPM4 was about it, but RM jumped on a lower level (or I am missing
> something).

Not sure I understand you here, Nikita. How was TMPM4 about answering
questions like "what does <two lines are parallel> mean"? I always saw the
"Processing" in "Processing Model" as answering the question of how markup
constructs gave rise to the topic map graph.

Sam Hunting
eTopicality, Inc.

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