Dear Martin,

Just one small detail: 

> This class comprises signs, either meaningful or not, or arrangements of 
> signs following a specific syntax, […]

Denotation is commonly connected to the concept of meaning. Thus, even if a 
place name is a series of sounds with no meaning as a word apart from the 
reference function as a place name, the denotation itself gives the appellation 
a certain kind of meaning.

As a discussion of meaning follows in the next paragraph anyway I suggest a 
change to:

> This class comprises signs or arrangements of signs following a specific 
> syntax, […]

All the best,

Øyvind

> On 12 Oct 2019, at 20:30, Martin Doerr <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> With the deletion of many subclasses of E41 Appellation here my suggestion 
> for adjustment:
> 
> NEW:
> 
> E41 Appellation
> 
> Subclass of:         E90 Symbolic Object
> 
> Superclass of:      E35 Title
> 
> E42 Identifier
> 
>  
> Scope note:         This class comprises signs, either meaningful or not, or 
> arrangements of signs following a specific syntax, that are used or can be 
> used to refer to and identify a specific instance of some class or category 
> within a certain context.
> 
>  
> Instances of E41 Appellation do not identify things by their meaning, even if 
> they happen to have one, but instead by convention, tradition, or agreement. 
> Instances of E41 Appellation are cultural constructs; as such, they have a 
> context, a history, and a use in time and space by some group of users. A 
> given instance of E41 Appellation can have alternative forms, i.e., other 
> instances of E41 Appellation that are always regarded as equivalent 
> independent from the thing it denotes.
> 
>  
> Even though instances of E41 Appellation are not words of a language, 
> different language groups may use different appellations for the same thing, 
> such as the names of major cities. Some appellations may be formulated using 
> a valid noun phrase of a particular language. In these cases, the respective 
> instances of E41 Appellation should also be declared as instances of E33 
> Linguistic Object. Then the language group using the appellation can be 
> declared with the property P72 has language: E56 Language.
> 
>  
> Instances of E41 Appellation may be used to identify any instance of E1 CRM 
> Entity and sometimes are characteristic for instances of more specific 
> subclasses E1 CRM Entity, such as for instances of E52 Time-Span (for 
> instance “dates”), E39 Actor, E53 Place or E28 Conceptual Object. Postal 
> addresses and E-mail addresses are characteristic examples of identifiers 
> used by services transporting things between clients.
> 
>  
> Even numerically expressed identifiers in continua are also regarded as 
> instances of E41 Appellation, such as Gregorian dates or  spatial 
> coordinates, even though they allow for determining the time or spot or are 
> they identify by a known procedure starting from a reference point and by 
> virtue of that play a double role as instances of E59 Primitive Value.
> 
>  
> E41 Appellation should not be confused with the act of naming something. Cf. 
> E15 Identifier Assignment
> 
> Examples:          
> 
> §  "Martin"
> 
> §  "the Forth Bridge"
> 
> §  "the Merchant of Venice" (E35) (McCullough, 2005)
> 
> §  "Spigelia marilandica (L.) L." [not the species, just the name] 
> (Hershberger, Jenkins and Robacker, 2015)
> 
> §  "information science" [not the science itself, but the name through which 
> we refer to it in an English-speaking context]
> 
> §  “安” [Chinese “an”, meaning “peace”]
> 
> §  “6°5’29”N 45°12’13”W”
> 
> §  “Black queen’s bishop 4” [chess coordinate][MD1] 
> 
> §  “1900”
> 
> §  “4-4-1959”
> 
> §  “19-MAR-1922”
> 
> §  “19640604”[MD2] 
> 
> §  “+41 22 418 5571”
> 
> §  [email protected][MD3] 
> 
> §  “Vienna”
> 
> §  “CH-1211, Genève”
> 
> §  “Aquae Sulis Minerva”
> 
> §  “Bath”
> 
> §  “Cambridge”
> 
> §  “the Other Place”
> 
> §  “the City”[MD4] 
> 
> §  “1-29-3 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 121, Japan”
> 
> §  “Rue David Dufour 5, CH-1211, Genève”[MD5] 
> 
> §  “the entrance lobby to the Ripley Center”
> 
> §  “the poop deck of H.M.S Victory”
> 
> §  “the Venus de Milo’s left buttock”
> 
> §  “left inner side of my box”
> 
> §  “the entrance lobby to the Ripley Center”
> 
> §  “the poop deck of H.M.S Victory”
> 
> §  “the Venus de Milo’s left buttock”
> 
> §  “left inner side of my box”[MD6] 
> 
> §   
> 
>  
> In First Order Logic:
> 
>                            E41(x) ⊃ E90(x)
> 
>  
>  
>  [MD1]Transfer of examples from deprecated E47
> 
>  [MD2]Transfer of examples from E50 Date
> 
>  [MD3]Transfer of examples from E51 Contact Point
> 
>  [MD4]Transfer of examples from E44 Place Appellation
> 
>  [MD5]Transfer of examples from E54 Address
> 
>  [MD6]Transfer of examples from E46 Section definition
> 
> 
> -- 
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>  Dr. Martin Doerr
>               
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