Re: Fwd: Re: TMRM: isa/sub - irreflexive relation vs. reflexive relation

On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Lars Marius Garshol
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> But what does that mean to us, to humans, as opposed to being a
>> technical engineering fetish?
>
> It means that the class of all classes is itself a class. Fairly obvious, no?

Of course it's obvious what that /technically/ means. My question was
what does it mean to us, to humans, to we who make Topic Maps and deal
with the semantics, what does it mean to those of us who not only live
in the representational world but also in the real one. Ie, can you
come up with an example that makes sense from our world rather than
the world of set theory or OO?


Regards,

Alex
-- 
 Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic Maps
--- http://shelter.nu/blog/ ----------------------------------------------
------------------ http://www.google.com/profiles/alexander.johannesen ---