[sc34wg3] What do we mean by reification?

[Steve Pepper]

At 16:19 03.03.2003 +0100, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
>SAM needs a term for
>the trick used to make topics represent base names/occurrences/assocs,
>
>...
>
>What we gain is having a term for the trick used to make topics
>represent topic characteristics.

Why are you calling this a "trick"? What's the point? I see this
as a useful and powerful feature.

If it's a trick, we should get rid of it.

Steve

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