Ian, Can you answer the question: When 'formal classifications' are unimportant, what is the use of such classifications?
> we get caught up on the > philosophy and do not focus on the utility Caring for the correct meaning is at the same time caring for utility. It is not a philosophical issue. Although some philosophical notions, and linguistic ones are helpful. Practicalities, translated as ?corners quickly cut', ?quick fixes', look nice in the short run. But how about the long(er) run? Gerard Freriks +31 620347088 gfrer at luna.nl On 17 feb. 2014, at 23:17, Ian McNicoll <ian.mcnicoll at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Bert, > > I think the problem here is that many people get hung up on the idea > of the ENTRY classes being a formal classification upon which some > sort of abstract computing will take place e.g. query for all > OBSERVATIONS but not EVALUATIONS. i.e. we get caught up on the > philosophy and do not focus on the utility. In other words if I > weirdly decide to make problem/diagnosis an ADMIN_ENTRY nothing will > be lost computationally. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/pipermail/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20140218/92057a3b/attachment.html>
