20 Mar descriptive relation

A kind of relation in which characteristics are ascribed to a thing. Also called ascriptive relation, the thing may be a real physical thing like a robot or an abstract thing like a theory. We might ascribe the ‘smart’ property to the robot and the ‘dumb’ property to the theory. When we generalize and categorize, descriptive relations or properties are often inherited down the hierarchy.
Keywords: property
existential
hierarchical relations
inheritance
learning
link
analysis
association
explicit representation
discriminate
References: associationism
cognition
inference
knowledge
taxonomy