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'Organised' Categorised

Submitted by MarkBarker on 2006-Nov-26, 22·51

On my Google 'Home Page' there's a list of various 'How Tos'. The other evening, I thought that I'd start to focus on 'How to get Organised', but there were so many that I had to start to organise the lists.

When Does a Bird become a Fish?

Submitted by MarkBarker on 2006-Nov-26, 22·04

Many have long enjoyed those imaginative images of M. C. Escher, such as "Sky and Water I" and "Reptiles". I accept that birds do not morph into fish in "Sky and Water I", but tessellated shapes do 'turn into' reptiles in "Reptiles".

Classification and Findability

Submitted by MarkBarker on 2006-Nov-26, 21·37

Just as precision is not the same as accuracy, classification is not the same as findability. For years, I believed that classifying something into a category would enable me to find once again in the future. Certainly, that was the primary motivation of my early involvement with classification schemes and systems. Often, that's the case, but it's not necessarily true.

Spin by Degrees

Submitted by MarkBarker on 2006-Feb-01, 22·30

Key to modern theories of classification is the notion of 'family resemblances'. A thing or relationship is a member of a class by degrees; membership in a class is on a continuum. The key question is "What is the threshold value at which an attribute of a thing or relationship becomes a member of a class?"

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