bimlas wrote > > ... but I have a problem with implementation. How do I indicate in Josiah's > second term chart > <https://tidbits.wiki/tw_kinship/tw_kinship.html#Notes%20for%20Bimlas> > that "father" has sisters ("aunt" and "aunt")? We don't know who their > parents are, so they can't come from a common ancestor. It could be solved > with a randomly named ancestor, but that wouldn't be a nice solution. >
Absolutely right. Indeed that is a difficult issue. The problem arises in real kinship recording too. You can't really trace back to a "foundational conjugation" (i.e. the parents of the first generation depicted in a chart) because there will always be parents before them too (i.e. an issue of infinite regress can arise). I will think about it and write a note for tomorrow with some thoughts from how anthropologists deal with this. *All this is very interesting!* Best wishes Josiah -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/00c62331-e429-40f2-80fc-9a0d236b3aef%40googlegroups.com.
