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Using terms 'Domain' and 'Range' for ternary relations in bfo-2020-terms is confusing

Open psiotwo opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

For example continuant part of is a ternary relation, thus it might be good to append some explanation what is meant by Domain/Range (e.g. that temporal parameter is neglected when presenting the Domain/Range).

psiotwo avatar Sep 09 '22 08:09 psiotwo

This is a fair comment. It's an issue in a bunch of places. So, for example, some "transitive" relations are transitive at a time. Did you have a suggestion of where I should add a note about this?

alanruttenberg avatar Sep 15 '22 20:09 alanruttenberg

I think it might be worth to provide some description of the CSV/XLS headers - to the first-comers it might not be clear what "Section" columns refers to, how is a "Synonym" related to the "Term" (e.g. can they be used interchangeably? is either of them preferred over the other?), etc. If such description of CSV structure exists, then explaining the terms Domain and Range there might be adequate.

In the current setup, even just a note in readme.txt explaining Domain/Range term usage within CSV/XLSs might be enough.

psiotwo avatar Sep 29 '22 19:09 psiotwo