R: [Sigia-l] Less Spatiality, More Semantics?

[Luca Rosati]

Ciao a tutti!

I see in the advanced applications of Faceted Classification, and in the FC
itself,
a field where trying to conciliate spatial and semantic approach.

I love a lot the word and concept of "simplicity". But I feel that in a
positive meaning: as a conquest. For many epistemologists *to simplify*
doesn't mean *to reduce*. Simple is not opposite to complex.

The challenge is in making comprehensible the complexity, but *without
reduce* that.
A correct, and moral use of FC may be one of the possible walk to that
synthesis.

I apologize for such a phiposophic break.

Luca
<www.lucarosati.it>

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> Da: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]Per conto di
> Richard_Dalton at Vanguard.com
> Inviato: martedi 25 marzo 2003 17.14
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> Oggetto: Re: [Sigia-l] Less Spatiality, More Semantics?
>
>
> 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
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