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July 3, 2005

“anataxonomy”

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More from Sig: What’s the oppo­site of “Taxo­nomy”?

Ana­ta­xo­nomy
freely glea­ned from Greek — “without-arrangement method” (how’s that for pas­sing as ancient Greek?)

–No arran­ge­ment at source (no fixed posi­tion for object)
–No tree-structure, no struc­ture at source
–No limits to dimen­sions for rela­tionships for objects
–Chan­ges at source have no effect at tar­get (object tags follows object changes)…[more]

I’m flying down to the South of France next Thurs­day to to do some work for Sig. Poor me.

2 Responses to ““anataxonomy””

1. Jessica says:

   July 7, 2005 at 5:58 PM

   That’s dif­fe­rent humor than your other ones. I like it very much!
2. ForwardMarkets says:

   July 7, 2005 at 10:38 PM

   “Iden­tity”, Tag­ging and Per­so­nal Ontology

   Sig, Hugh you might want to watch this video by Sco­ble and his Channel9 con­fe­de­ra­tes. Yes it is long, but the whole issue they are dis­cus­sing, Iden­tity, is pro­foundly rela­ted to the notions of tag­ging and per­so­nal onto­logy whose discussion