26 Mar relation

A named connection between two or more things. A connection without a name is a link. By adding a name to a connection, the meaning of the connection becomes clear. Associations between things can be described using explicit relations. Relations come in many shapes, including hierarchical and causal.
Keywords: experience
arity
link
association
causal relations
hierarchical relations
explicit representation
node
object
References: associationism
cognition
connectionism
inference
knowledge
taxonomy