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Levels of form and appearance

Three levels of abstraction:

  1. S (structure): strings, trees, graphs

    model: compositionality, abstract concepts

  2. L (layout): spatio-temporal relations

    model: sequencing, simultaneity

  3. A (appearance):

    spatio-temporal coordinates

    model: observables, measurables

Maps:

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Dafydd Gibbon
Wed Oct 21 15:49:14 MET DST 1998