From: Evan Prodromou on Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:34 PM
"Jakob" == Jakob jakob.voss@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de writes:>
Jakob> By the way categories are nothing but hierarchical links Jakob> between articles. Semantically there is no big difference Jakob> between dividing an article in subtopics and creating a Jakob> category with a couple of articles in it.Not true. From a graphical level, part-whole implies a tree structure -- each child article can be part of one and only one parent article. Category-member semantics are more twisted -- articles can be members of multiple categories.
It's true that part-whole implies one-parent relationships.
But Jakob didn't say "part-whole".
So you shouldn't say what he wrote is not true.
The statement " Semantically there is no big difference between dividing an article in subtopics and creating a category with a couple of articles in it," is perfectly true.