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One sees these terms in discussions of semiotics and legal theory. See NORMA. The Evolution of Organisational Semiotics www.orgsem.org/papers/00.pdf I've seen it and used it paired as "norms and affordances" also called "clica". If anyone has a better general term, now is the time to use it. A few years ago we were discussing it in relation to the problem of rights to operations that needed to be transferable among virtual worlds. This is now identity sharing or how Google can make use of Google+ without actually beating Facebook in the market. Notice the problem of having these available without regard to implementation or propriety. IOW, the affordance becomes a property right for a class as that class moves among domains (which is why legal theorists use it). "A topic not discussed here as far as I can remember is how one can acquire affordances (operation rights) that transfer among worlds in accordance with the norms (cultural constraints) of a world. IOW, analogous to single sign on for other network apps, a means to share identity and ownership to enable rights regardless of the server owner or vendor." http://www.web3d.org/x3d/publiclists/x3dpublic_list_archives/0604/msg000 75.html In that case, the affordance had to be legally established given the problems of mixing children with adults in VR. In this case, it can be a means to enable hyperlinking among XML applications without the need to use downtranslation. In VR worlds this wasn't as easy given the complexity of the potential behaviors and rights management. The king has clothes. You are not his subject. len -----Original Message----- From: David Lee [mailto:dlee@calldei.com] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 6:13 AM To: Michael Kay; xml-dev@lists.xml.org Subject: RE: "Introducing MicroXML, Part 1: Explore the basic principles of ... >> The term "affordances" is interesting but I can't seem to figure out what it really means > I think it's mainly interesting as an example of a social phenomenon whereby the enlightened invent specialist > vocabulary explicitly to prevent the unenlightened joining the conversation. Whew, and I was afraid to say the kind was naked too .... Reminds me of a chat I had 15 years ago with a friend who has a PhD in Chaos Physics. He was showing me this paper and I read part of it then gave it back and said "This is full of it, nobody could understand any of this I doubt even the author does" ... And he admitted what was my underlying belief ... that one way of making publishable papers in esoteric sciences is to make it so complicated no one can admit they dont have a clue what you're talking about.
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