Re: Another terminology problem (sorry)

From: Michael Roy Ames (michaelroyames@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 18:55:23 MST


Alternative words to...

Structure & Pattern
-------------------
Characteristic
Model
Construct
Plan
Matrix
Archetype
Construction
Frame
Body
Container

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
To: "SL4" <sl4@sysopmind.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 2:03 PM
Subject: Another terminology problem (sorry)

> Oops. I forgot to say earlier that I'm also thinking of replacing
> "structural variable" with "pattern variable", since I refer to structure
in
> a wide variety of other contexts. The only problem is that "pattern" is a
> noun rather than an adjective like "discrete" and "quantitative".
> "Discrete" is excellent, so does anyone have a suggestion for an adjective
> that indicates patternness? Please email privately (should have thought
of
> that earlier, my bad).
>
> -- -- -- -- --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
>



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