MIKROKOSMOS
Symbols
- %
- instantiated ontological concept. The ontological database must
be searched and the appropriate concept found before it is
used in the TMR, or a new ontological concept must be created.
- $
- unanalyzed string/remembered instance (e.g., company names,
countries). The databases which contain remembered instances
must be searched and the appropriate term found before it is used
in the TMR. For example, if United States of America is
the term used in the database of countries, it should be used
rather than America.
- %%
- generic remembered instance
- &
- symbolic constant (e.g., &red &blue)
- *
- concept in the ontology. This is used when you simply want to
invoke a type in the TMR to define another term which has been
instantiated.
- *X*
- special variable (e.g., *author*, *unknown*)
- ;;
- comment (text following is not treated as part of the TMR)
- ~
- approximately