Thomas B. Passin wrote:
> .....
If you mean something else, would you please explain some more?
And I think we have to be careful about the use of the word "assertion".
It might be used to mean specifically an association in a topic map,
generally in a normal English usage sense, or colloquially as a
ahorthand for "statement" or "claim". In the strict topic map sense,
you can have associations (or call the "assertions" if this is the new
jargon), but that refers to computer structures relating topics in the
topic map. They are but proxies for the real subjects and the real
relations between them.
In the TM reference model, relations are described by means of
"assertions".
In opposite, the TM data model has a concept of "association"
not "assertion".
Thomas S.
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