[sc34wg3] New SAM draft

Lars Marius Garshol sc34wg3@isotopicmaps.org
21 Feb 2003 11:24:30 +0100


* Steve Pepper
| 
| The way I think about this is that by creating such a topic you have
| implicitly "brought into being" a new subject which encompasses both
| Astronomy and Quantum Physics. Thus the topic really does just
| represent a single subject (which happens to be a composite). This
| is no different than the subject "Steve's daughters" - which is also
| "one and only one" subject (although it encompasses three other
| subjects).

This is the thinking behind the current wording, yes.
 
| On that basis, the current wording is acceptable. But if you think
| it might be misunderstood, perhaps there should be a note saying
| that a subject may be a composite subject?

This is what the third example within the note is supposed to do.
Whether it is actually successful in doing so is another matter. I'd
welcome feedback on that.

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