[tcs-lc] Names as Objects

Gregor Hagedorn G.Hagedorn at BBA.DE
Tue Mar 8 09:44:38 PST 2005


> as I've said to you before I believe what you are doing is defining a new
> concept (in TCS terminology - i.e. combination of name and definition) but fo
> rsome reason you don't want to say you are. If you defined your new concept and

Editors of biological journals don't like that. Nobody will be willing to 
publish that I was able to read two different papers and understand them.

> published it with the relationships to the other concpets that you mentioned
> then you would be sorting out some of the problems for people and making your
> concept available with a good definition for others ot use - again improving
> things. Without doing this I see you adding to the general confusoin and leaving
> it for others to continually try to interpret what you did - we will never get
> anywhere... 

To me this is not confusing at all, and I believe to most biologists it is not. 
The name and the circumscription concept are in practice freely combinable, 
provided the nomenclatural rules about inclusion of type are fullfilled.  

> >This can be easily 
> >modeled of the two concept types are different object types, 
> >but not so easily 
> >in a single object type. 
> 
> but how do I refer to your concept?

You would not, since I have no concept. I accepted other peoples concepts and 
acted accordingly.

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