From: Evan Prodromou on Thursday, December 11, 2003
2:34 PM
>>>> "Jakob" == Jakob
<jakob.voss(a)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.