Re: Latest version of glossary

"Alexandr Savinov" <spam_at_conceptoriented.com> wrote in message news:43fec3be$1_at_news.fhg.de...
> dawn schrieb:
> > I tried to find the latest draft of the cdt glossary, but wasn't sure
> > if I found the most recent one, so mAsterdam or anyone -- could you
> > repost the glossary so we can perhaps add in some terms to help with
> > some of these discussions? We could maybe add dimension, entity, flat,
> > and a few others.
> >
> > For example (just off the top of my head -- these should be improved
> > upon):
> >
> > entity: a thing of interest
>
> Although it is an official definition it has the following problems:
> - it is too general and hence useless
> - it is equivalent to the term "thing", which is used to refer to anything
> - entity != dimension, entity != attribute, entity != reference
>
> So entity is much more concrete term than simply a thing of interest. I
> would define it as follows:
>
> entity is a thing of interest which has properties, that is, can be
> characterized by one or more other (primitive or non-primitive)
> entities, and has an associated identifier.
>
> In other words, without an identifier a thing is NOT an entity. Without
> properties it is also NOT an entity.

Without an identifier a thing is not a thing :-) Maybe we can call it "stuff" ?
Without properties it cannot be identified :-) Received on Fri Feb 24 2006 - 10:08:08 CET