20011120: More on categories while listening about thesauri

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Thesauri can be used to create an authorized descriptor. Language is
normalized in a style similar to database normalization to establish
and codify relationships. Once this structure is in place the building
blocks are in place to create many (any?) kinds of representations as
long as the relationships are respected. 

Interestingly, human concept categories essentially exist to get
around (in both the traverse and ignore senses) rigidity: they are
adaptable so as to create dynamic relationships and representations. 


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