Re: [xtm-wg] Simplification and clarification of XTM - Editors please read...

[Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>]

> > [luis]
> > > I think you are missing the distinction between "is subject" and
> > > "describes subject"
> > [sam]
> > If correct that's a problem. That distinction is pretty deeply
> > embedded at this point. In the design, the syntax, the 
> > documentation, the images...

> > OK, back to work....

[Thomas B. Passin]
> Yes, such a distinction is fundamental in natural languages and many
> or most conceptual modeling systems.  Consider the statement
> 
> "That dog is black."

Reminds me of the old joke about Calvin Coolidge on the train with
another Vermonter. His fellow passenger looks out the window and says,
"Look at that black cow." Coolidge pauses, and says, "Well, this side
is black..." Well, baddaboom, baddabing, I'm outta here.

S.




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