Character hierarchies
Robert A. (Bob) Morris
ram at CS.UMB.EDU
Wed Dec 12 07:34:21 CET 2001
Jim Croft writes:
> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 07:28:21 +1100
> From: Jim Croft <jrc at anbg.gov.au>
> To: TDWG-SDD at usobi.org
> Subject: Re: Character hierarchies
>
> >The other qualifiers (misinterps etc) aren't in there yet, but will come.
> >We'll have to be much more sophisticated that in my example, of course.
> >
> >Now how about "definately known to be unknown"
>
> Very droll... However, Greg and I have discussed this in depth over a
^^^^^^^
> bottle of red and have come to the firm conclusion that without the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
over "a" bottle of wine, or over "a quantity of bottles of red wine
wine more than zero and of indeterminate number" ?
> attribute of "often misinterpreted as definitely known to be unknown", and
> the corresponding "rarely misinterpreted as definitely known to be
> unknown", accurate representation of author intent in biological
> descriptions will never be possible...
>
> So get to it - we expect to see this in the next software release, real
> soon now...
>
> jim
>
> ~ Jim Croft ~ jrc at anbg.gov.au ~ 02-62465500 ~ www.anbg.gov.au/jrc/ ~
>
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