[sc34wg3] Topics and Subjects clarification

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Patrick Durusau
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| <revision>Topic maps are organized around topics, which are
| assertions about subjects, associations representing relationships
| between topics, and occurrences, which connect the topic map to
| information resources pertinent to the topics.</revision>

This works. Steve Pepper already proposed replacing "real-world things
by" "subject of discourse", and I adopted that.
 
| In other words, all statements about subjects are made via the
| mechanism of a topic. No topic, no subject. No topic, no assertions.

Yep. It makes good sense.
 
| [issue (term-subject-def)]
|
| Should say almost nothing about subjects other than they are
| represented in a topic map by topics.  This is the topic map
| standard and not the "true world view epistemology standard."

Thanks for this. I've entered it into the topic map for now.

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