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Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
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Fri, 8 Jan 1999 13:41:23 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:

> p.s.  Larry:  When we met in In August, you suggested that two-way fuzzy
> references probably ought to accommodate separate fuzzy-values in each
> direction, just in case it was ever needed.  At the time, we couldn't come
> up with any real-life examples.  But maybe here's one:  If you're assocating
> the set "female" with the set "woman" (this example DB has these for female
> minifigs and the Belville mom), isn't it true that all women are female but
> not all females are women?  That is, "woman" is a 100%-subset of "female"
> while "female" is perhaps only a 75%-subset of "woman" in the LEGO world.
> I need to re-read Kosko on the subject of super-sets being fractional
> subsets of the smaller sets they themselves contain, but I think this might
> actually be a real example of what we were wondering about...

Right. some dogs are female, and some aren't, but no dogs are women (and
no women are dogs, either, right? :-)   )
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  Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
 
(...) Here's an example of what I mean by wanting things to "just work" -- and wanting the categories to be relatively transparent by default. If you type in "bike" into this element-search thingie, (URL) fails to find any pieces labeled as "bike." (...) (28 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)

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