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Meronomy
A meronomy or partonomy is a type of hierarchy that deals with part–whole relationships, in contrast to a taxonomy whose categorisation is based on discrete sets. Accordingly, the unit of meronomical classification is meron, while the unit of taxonomical classification is taxon. These conceptual structures are used in linguistics and computer science, with applications in biology. The part–whole relationship is sometimes referred to as HAS-A, and corresponds to object composition in object-oriented programming.[1] The study of meronomy is known as mereology, and in linguistics a meronym is the name given to a constituent part of, a substance of, or a member of something. "X" is a meronym of "Y" if an X is a part of a Y.[2]
Example
Cars have parts: engine, headlight, wheel
Engines have parts: crankcase, carburetor
Headlights have parts: headlight bulb, reflector
Wheels have parts: rim, spokes
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In the seventeenth century the German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, following the work of the thirteenth-century Majorcan philosopher Ramon Llull on his Ars generalis ultima, a system for procedurally generating concepts by combining a fixed set of ideas, sought to develop an alphabet of human thought. Leibniz intended his characteristica universalis to be an "algebra" capable of expressing all conceptual thought. The concept of creating such a "universal language" was frequently examined in the 17th century, also notably by the English philosopher John Wilkins in his work An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (1668), from which the classification scheme in Roget's Thesaurus ultimately derives.
wiki, Leibniz
Butterflies
Oh, let's just throw time away,
Leibniz,
It's but a mnemonic device,
And then,
Are you the butterfly,
Or I?
Forget Zhuangzi.
Oh wait, a Flutterby...
DolphinWords
aftermaths = mathsafter
Notes:a couple things: a lot went (came on?) on in the 17th Century...and the Sci-Fi tale, A Canticle for Leibniz, the story of repeated rediscovery and preservation of the foreverpresentpast in the aftermaths of disasters...to come, a song for mnemonics...
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