[Sigia-l] Less Spatiality, More Semantics?

[Richard_Dalton at Vanguard.com]

Peter wrote:
> A big theme of Mark's talk(s) was "multivalence is not a vice," which I 
also
> think ties into this quite neatly. In an effort to achieve clarity and
> understandability, we often attempt to reduce our presentation of
> information so that everything we offer has a single, obvious purpose. 
Mark
> finds such reduction foolish, claiming that there's no information that
> isn't multivalent, that couldn't be used to support a variety of 
purposes,
> and that we need to acknowledge, and, perhaps, celebrate that.
>
> One thing that both Andrew and Mark commented on is that what they're
> talking about isn't easy to grasp, present, develop methods for. They're
> challenging us to tackle a difficult issue, instead of relying simply on 
the
> more facile crutch of just spatiality.

There are interesting approaches, does anyone have any examples that we 
could talk about to further clarify and advance the topic?

 - Richard Dalton