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| 5.3 |
MODIFIER
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| While the internal components of a DA define its association by category, concepts and objects may have other unique directly associated characteristics. | ||
| For example, a fully healthy person has the ability to walk, run and even jump. In traditional languages, these characteristics would be seen as essentially Verbs, describing a "state" of the Subject- the person. | ||
| At the same time, a person may be happy, sad, hungry, tired. They may be wearing a yellow raincoat. The words describing emotion and color are usually associated as either adjectives, or depending on tense as adverbs. | ||
| While such classification methods are a standard part of almost all languages, they provide a less than precise and easy-to-understand approach to classifying and identifying concepts associated with objects. | ||
| 5.3.1 | Modifiers | |
| UCADIA defines all associated concepts with objects as classes of modifiers. Only object DA's have modifiers. And the different primary classes of DA have slightly different classes of modifiers. | ||
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| As the above example shows, modifiers are shown as images either to the top, left, right, or bottom of a DA. The size of property icons is usually half the size of an DA. | ||
| The associator is a small triangle used to effectively "point" a property back to its associated DA. Associators are used because more than one DA may be listed, with only a few properties. Associators should be half the width of a property icon. | ||
| 5.3.2 | General modifier classes | |
| Under UCADIA, all objects have the following modifier: | ||
| Name | ||
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| An object may have a proper name. Proper
names should always be printed in capitals and always between standard square
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| Number | ||
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| Similar to proper names, the property of number should also be printed in square brackets. | ||
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Position | |
| Dimension defines qualities such as width, depth, height and size. | ||
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Dimension | |
| Dimension defines qualities such as width, depth, height and size. | ||
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Form | |
| Mass/density defines weight, thickness, hardness | ||
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Motion | |
| Motion defines internal motion as well as external motion | ||
| Temperature | ||
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| Temperature defines the temperature of the object. | ||
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Copyright © 2008 Frank O'Collins. All rights reserved. |
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