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#mechanism
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Computations describe the observer, not the mechanism
than about the mechanism itself.”
Rdf Primer
Anything with a URI reference is a resource
Because of this generality, RDF uses URIs as the basis of its mechanism for identifying the subjects, predicates, and objects in statements. To be more precise, RDF uses URI references [URIS]. A URI reference (or URIref) is a URI, together with an optional fragment identifier…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Two souls in one body
we do not see that “I” as the knower and controller am the same fellow as “myself” as something to be known and controlled. The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body—a rational soul and an animal soul, a…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Scope vs facet
As mentioned above, scope should not be confused with facets. The two mechanisms are different and complementary. Whereas scope can be seen as a filtering mechanism that is based on properties of the topics, facets provide for filtering based on properties of the information…
Base names and variant names
The standard therefore provides the facility to assign multiple base names to a single topic, and to provide variants of each base name for use in specific processing contexts. In the original ISO standard variants were limited to display name and sort name. XTM offers a more…