Springer: Thanks for the Triad and Pierce references. It will take some time and a bit of experimentation before I can appreciate this enough to contribute comments. At first glance, the approach appears well-suited to a Subjective classification of attributes that are Qualities. If so, that might be a useful addition to what I've been working on recognizing that a simple Matrix (a two D array) of 2 rows and 3 columns, containing the first 6 integers, can be (un)"raveled" into a vector of 1 2 3 4 5 6 from its structured form of
1 2 3 4 5 6 In the structured form, the value 5 can be accessed by its co-ordinates row=1 column=1 (using 0 as an index origin). This trivial example of a two D array leads to the much more interesting coordinate system used to fill the Unicode "position" array of 128 groups, 256 planes, 256 rows, and 256 cells which is effectively a 4 D array that accommodates a very large number of characters. The Unicode assignments can be thought of as the Names for each of the cells in that 4 D array. I have been engaged to Experimental Development on two particular aspects of this. (1) I can vastly increase the size of my "alphabet" beyond the usual ten digits and 26 letters of the English alphabet to more than 2,000,000 characters to achieve truly dense encodings (2) TiddlyWiki's dynamic nature makes if possible to use a subset of the Unicode values in any dimension, without having to allocate memory for the entire structure. This enables the use of what my Math associates refer to as Sparse, Ragged arrays that can be indexed using a MixedRadixPositionalNotation. If this sounds too theoretical, there are examples of how this is use as the basis of Canada's PostalCode system, for example. (2a) I can even add my own (or shared) dimensions to the Array, effectively using the Unicode characters as just one position in the resulting Index value. One thing I've noticed as I've experimented with all of this is that I inevitably recognize many of the Unicode characters I use frequently. With practice, they become the short words I read, much like reading the meanings referred to by the ChineseTelegraphCode. Finally, coming to Tony's points about a permanent Key, I usually place a string of two or three such characters in a field. This gives me the ability to search a field to find the tiddlers (or the unique one) that I have associate with any of my 5 dimensions. On Monday, June 8, 2020 at 3:00:13 PM UTC-4, springer wrote: ... > > I'd love to hear more about what you're *doing* with this idea of a > dimensional array. > > As my prior post hints, there's a great deal of resonance between your > big-picture musings and Charles Peirce's logic. > > ... > Here's some reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categories_(Peirce) > > ... > > I would like to hear more about why "key" and "name" would be seen as > separate dimensions from each other in your scheme... But here's a Peircean > starting point that resonates with your word - name - category sequence: > ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e35a7251-d45f-4e85-9c83-58bbc7fe6ad8o%40googlegroups.com.
