Re: [Obi-devel] distance, inheres, data and its transforms. Was: Re: transformation terms from MO

[Alan R. <ala...@gm...>]

>> The problem I see with using "inheres" for distance [snip]

On Jan 26, 2007, at 11:27 PM, William Bug wrote:

> I do think distance must encapsulate some sense of the entities  
> defining it's boundaries.

One would think. I think it might boil down to the fact that inheres ! 
= dependence. inheres is a kind of dependence, but not all kinds of  
dependence have the dependents related by inheres. Snap/Span paper says:

"Thus dependence alone does not suffice for the relation of inherence  
to obtain,... "


-Alan