[xtm-wg] Re: Structural constraints are extensions of equality

["Dale Hunscher" <dale@supportability.com>]

I think the analysis of thought-structure types was very thought-
provoking and enormously useful. As I read it I wondered if there are 
some other constructs that should be woven into the framework at some 
level.

1) Groves, which are collections of hierarchies. IMO, the topic map 
for a large corpus is typically like this, a series of topic trees 
whose primary relationship to each other is that they are contained 
in the same topic map.

2) Decompositions, in which any given thought--a node on one of the 
primary types of thought-aggregations, namely a sequence, hierarchy, 
or network--can expand into another thought-aggregation, which need 
not be the same type as its parent.

As to equality of thoughts, I agree with Ronald Poell about the 
importance of context. Equality can only be suggested by the 
conceptual tools we have thus far been able to define. The usefulness 
and applicability of such suggestions in any given target context 
must be judged by a human mind, which can take into account the 
explicit and implicit aspects of both contexts (the source and 
target). Nonetheless, heuristics such as those you are trying to 
define here are very useful as a starting point.



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