AL: Glossary notes

AL: Glossary notes

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept

    • Concepts

    • Concepts formed by:

    • The logical acts of the understanding by which concepts are generated as to their form are:

        • comparison, i.e., the likening of mental images to one another in relation to the unity of consciousness;

        • reflection, i.e., the going back over different mental images, how they can be comprehended in one consciousness; and finally

        • abstraction or the segregation of everything else by which the mental images differ ...

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy

    • flat (max degree approaches infinity)

    • overlapping (multiple parents)

    • Containment (strict subset)

      • Subsumptive containment hierarchy

      • Compositional containment hierarchy

    • linear (max degree = 1)

    • branching (degree > 1)

    • Nested (subset)

    • superordinate - higher level concept

    • subordinate - lower level concept

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology

  • Other thoughts