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Nico Concept Examples

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- The examples start off more or less where our discussion (facilitated through Aimee) ended, see [http://www.soc.napier.ac.uk/tdwg/index.php?pagename=What%20Gets%20a%20Guid] The idea is to illustrate various scenarios where concepts and GUIDs might be reused. I’m also adding in some things about how to define the meanings of concepts. I hope there’s no need to stress the provisional character of these scenarios.
+ The examples start off more or less where our discussion (facilitated through Aimee) ended, see [http://www.soc.napier.ac.uk/tdwg/index.php?pagename=What%20Gets%20a%20Guid] __The idea is to illustrate various scenarios where concepts and GUIDs might be reused. I’m also adding in some things about how to define the meanings of concepts.__ I hope there’s no need to stress the provisional character of these scenarios.
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- !!__Example 1 [http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/attach?page=NicoConceptExamples%2FExample1.jpg]__
+ !!__Example 1 - no concept reuse [http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/attach?page=NicoConceptExamples%2FExample1.jpg]__
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- So, to sum up, there are three possible sorts of relationships here:
+ So, to sum up, there are __three possible sorts of relationships__ here:
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- (1) internally, rejected (shallow) concepts to accepted (deep) concepts (e.g. Hicoria sec. Stone (not shown) → Carya sec. Stone (shown));
+ __(1)__ internally, __rejected (shallow) concepts to accepted (deep) concepts__ (e.g. Hicoria sec. Stone (not shown) → Carya sec. Stone (shown));
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- (2) vertical relationships among accepted concepts (e.g. Carya sec. Stone → C. ovata sec. Stone); and
+ __(2) vertical relationships among accepted concepts__ (e.g. Carya sec. Stone → C. ovata sec. Stone); and
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- (3) lateral relationships among accepted concepts (e.g. Carya sec. Stone → Carya sec. Manning).
+ __(3) lateral relationships among accepted concepts__ (e.g. Carya sec. Stone → Carya sec. Manning).
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- !!__Example 2 [http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/attach?page=NicoConceptExamples%2FExample2.jpg]__
+ !!__Example 2 - low-level reuse [http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/attach?page=NicoConceptExamples%2FExample2.jpg]__
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- !!__Example 3 [http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/attach?page=NicoConceptExamples%2FExample3.jpg]__
+ !!__Example 3 - reshuffling, parents [http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/attach?page=NicoConceptExamples%2FExample3.jpg]__
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- !!__Example 4 [http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/attach?page=NicoConceptExamples%2FExample4a.jpg]__
+ !!__Example 4 - ost./int. separation [http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/attach?page=NicoConceptExamples%2FExample4a.jpg]__
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- What I’ve done here is also in Figs. 7-10 and in Table 4 of the manuscript. The disconnect between the lines in the hierarchy is supposed to indicate that their referential extensions are entirely specified through their properties, i.e. the solid rectangles. The lines basically don’t count. Stone has been given a choice here to use only a part of Manning’s full definition of Juglandaceae, the part that talks about the shapes of walnuts, their unique leaves and floral organ arrangements, etc. Under that purely intensional definition, Cyclocarya sec. Stone (1997) is subsumed under Manning’s (1978) Juglandaceae concept (and GUID 100), even though Manning never saw or mentioned Cyclocarya. Manning’s property-based definition is still useful and precise enough after Cyclocarya had been discovered - or at least that’s what Stone wants to express.
+ What I’ve done here is also in Figs. 7-10 and in Table 4 of the manuscript. The disconnect between the lines in the hierarchy is supposed to indicate that their referential extensions are entirely specified through their properties, i.e. the solid rectangles. The lines basically don’t count. __Stone has been given a choice here to use only a part of Manning’s full definition of Juglandaceae, the part that talks about the shapes of walnuts, their unique leaves and floral organ arrangements, etc.__ Under that purely intensional definition, Cyclocarya sec. Stone (1997) is subsumed under Manning’s (1978) Juglandaceae concept (and GUID 100), even though Manning never saw or mentioned Cyclocarya. Manning’s property-based definition is still useful and precise enough after Cyclocarya had been discovered - or at least that’s what Stone wants to express.

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