Thomas Beale wrote:
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> Anyway, Angelo's work above is interesting, and shows a couple of deficiencies
> in the GEHR/CEN approach to things which we need to take note of. It also
> (IMO) has its own deficiencies, but is nevertheless a clear and comprehensive
> attempt to tease out some of the levels of abstraction of clinical
> information, and I see it as 80% correct.
>
I have to push you on this. I don't see levels of
abstraction here, I see a decomposition into a grammar of
expression, sort of like noun, verb, adverb.
Here is the grammar:
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> statement = kernel + status concepts + instantiation
> information + circumstances of collection
>
To make matters more explicit one could answer the question,
Is a ruler an abstration of a length?