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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote: > "Nodes is Nodes. Properties is Properties. Tell me who gets to name the Names > so we can get on with business." I don't know the source of this quote. I would, however, insist that it is just as potent to choose items by their names as it is to give those names to those items. Both are necessary forms of recognition. Both are expressions of expertise. Both are effectively the association, via the name, of the thing named to a local process, in the execution of which some part of the thing named is instantiated with particular type and value. In Sean's example, the percussionist's primary expertise is realized when he plays notes, whether they are presented to him in musical notation or by some other labelling scheme, and thereby instantiates their types and values. If this particular percussionist claims additional expertise as a teacher he must demonstrate it by labelling the musical types and values of his notes with words which his audience can recognize sufficiently to associate epistemological processes of their own with the musical content which the words describe, and from that content identified by those labels to elaborate their own particular semantics. Respectfully, Walter Perry
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