CARLISLE, Philip wrote:
> Now we still have to get round the contentious issue of the B-word (ie.
> when is a material, a material and not a form of material).
I'm not sure you do. Isn't the problem that labels are being conflated
with concepts in much of this debate. We have two concepts (brick the
material, brick the object) - have two entries in the hierarchy, one for
each concept, they just happen to have a similar label. In terms of
disambiguation from a user's point of view, they should marked as
homonyms with a reference to their wider term, and a link to there
related homonym, eg
BRICK [BUILDING MATERIAL] (also see BRICK [FORM])
Cheers,
Andrew
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