Re: Editors' proposal for membership predicate names

On 24 Feb 2014, at 14:26, Kingsley Idehen wrote:

> On 2/21/14 12:55 PM, Roger Menday wrote:
>> 
>> hello Kingsley, 
>> 
>> Thanks for your feedback. 
>> I would like to think about your diagramming suggestions over the weekend. 
>> But, I have a comment now on your point #2. 
>> 
>> My picture was the DirectContainer case. 
>> Here, all the boxes are Documents.
>> So, there is nothing to change. 
>> (for the IndirectContainer case, we *will* have other shapes in the picture I beleive) 
>> 
>> However ... 
>> 
>> MembershipTriple's link non-informational resources and ContainerTriple's link information resources. But, in a DirectContainer, the Document which is created is the object position of the membershipTriple. Therefore the membershipTriple is linking to an Information resource, which is a contradiction. 
>> 
>> My conclusion is that we shouldn't really have DirectContainers ... 
>> 
>> ? 
>> Roger
> 
> Roger,
> 
> I don't believe a document about "net worth" and what the term "net worth" denotes are one an the same,


I agree ... so that message was the point of my thoughts on Friday actually.

My picture was just reflecting the status of the spec ... FWIW.  

The IndirectContainer does this better IMO, but again my email was about the DC.  


> hence my suggestion about entity depictions. Naturally, I need a medium (e.g., a Web Document, Paper Document etc.) through which I perceive your "net worth" but that doesn't make the aforementioned perception medium (i.e., Document) the signifier (i.e., identifier) of your net worth. 
> 
> The eternal issue is that the perception medium (so called "information resource") and the signification mechanism (identifier) continue to be conflated. 
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