[tcs-lc] Proposal: replace "Is parent/child of" with specific term

Gregor Hagedorn G.Hagedorn at BBA.DE
Tue Sep 20 01:15:00 PDT 2005


> What does the last pair means, Gregor?

Copy and paste without reading the result :-(
I meant 

> >   sub-taxon-of, supra-taxon-of

I agree that
> >   next-higher-taxon-of, next-lower-taxon-of
> >   parent-taxon-of, child-taxon-of

is too restrictive, I proposed them if for some reason TCS would like to 
continue to the stress the immediacy of the graph relation rather than the 
classification sense of taxonomy.

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