Jim Croft writes:

Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 07:28:21 +1100 From: Jim Croft jrc@anbg.gov.au To: TDWG-SDD@usobi.org Subject: Re: Character hierarchies

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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

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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

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