Jim Bromer wrote:
I am presenting a rough idea of a conceptual network as a potential advancement from earlier ideas like semantic networks. Looking on Wikipedia I found some examples of semantic networks. In a semantic network the nodes are the "concepts" and the edges are "relations between concepts". A semantic network was usually defined with a conveniently finite number of definitions of the edges (as types of relations between concepts) and a lot of nodes (which were the concepts). One difference then is that the conceptual network that I envision will not be limited by the number of relations between concepts. This initial presentation, however, is a little misleading because, as can easily be deduced from an inspection of a semantic network, it is obvious that the edges, which are called "relations between the concepts," are concepts themselves. So in the conceptual network, a relation could become a concept itself. And the conceptual network that I am thinking of does not have a single systematic method of being 'activated' in some way (although searches would be made through it). Furthermore, the network does not have to be envisioned as a single network, but since different kinds of concepts may be associated arbitrarily the potential for interrelations would tend to be extensive.
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This is not an easy model but I believe it could be developed and at least tested with some simple cases.
OMG!!! When did you grow a brain?? I thought me and Mike were the only people on this list who even knew what the right track looked like...
/me rummages around for the cap, diploma, and cookie which you now deserve...
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