RE: [humanmarkup-comment] Base Schema - signal

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

The term "signal" in this application is constrained 
quite deliberately to a limited definition.  We got 
it from the literature, not the natural language. 
Delving deeply is not warranted.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: James Landrum [mailto:James.Landrum@ndsu.nodak.edu]


Perhaps a bit long-winded (and perhaps too graphically violent as well) 
bvut the piont of the above points (1 and 2) are that signals are not 
mere actions, they are events of themselves and can be both objectively 
as well as subjectively observed and interpreted, but perhaps just as 
important, a signal is, in the human context at least, more often an 
intentional action to of a transmitter to communicate, to transmit 
information in a salient (meaningful) way, so as to evoke one or more 
anticipated reactions from the receiver.  This, of course, is inclusive 
of that often-observed miscommunitation, the :missed signal.