{"id":1452,"date":"2023-11-14T13:44:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T12:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oopm.org\/?page_id=1452"},"modified":"2025-02-04T13:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T12:06:52","slug":"6-4-representing-contextualised-concepts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oopm.org\/?page_id=1452","title":{"rendered":"10.5 Representing contextualized concepts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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C<\/mark>ontextualization<\/mark> is another means for organizing and understanding concepts. Context<\/em> refers to the environment or setting in which something exists. For modeling, environment or setting is a concept or phenomena. A contextualised concept is only meaningful within the context of a specific phenomena or concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept of a citizen<\/em> is only meaningful in the context of a country<\/em>. Citizens of Norway and Denmark have some common properties, but they also differ – a citizen of Norway may have a Norwegian passport whereas a citizen of Denmark may have a Danish passport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the previous sections of this chapter, we have seen a number of examples of contextualized concepts. For the grammar example the concepts Symbol and Rule are defined within the context of a specific grammar — SIMULA Symbols and Rules are only meaningful within the context of the SIMULA Grammar object. This is similarly <\/mark>the case for Symbols and Rules of a Java grammar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the flight example, the concept of a Flight is only meaningful with the context of a specific FlightRoute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the text formatter example, the concept of a Paragraph is only meaningful within the context of a specific document. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A method is also a representation of a concept, in this case a concept where the extension is a set of activities. Methods defined local to classes is thus also a form of representing contextualized concepts. For a method like deposit<\/code> on an Account<\/code>, the extension is the set of operations that make a deposit on the a specific account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The distinction between phenomena and concepts is common in the world of modeling and philosophy, and this is also the case for conceptual means such as classification and composition. Context\/contextualization, however, is not a widely accepted term within modeling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Context, on the other hand is important within a number of disciplines such as linguistics, semiotics, sociology, anthropology and philosophy where context refers to entities which surround a given focal entity. The context of a given entity is essential for an appropriate interpretation of the entity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In linguistics, the focal entity may be a word, sentence or speech act and the context is the surrounding text or speech. Within philosophy, contextualism<\/em>, refers to a collection of views that argue that actions or expressions can only be understood in context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When using the a term like symbol, its is quite clear that the context is important. In a text on Java, symbol obviously refers to a Java symbol. In other situation one may use an explicit term like Java symbol<\/em> or SIMULA symbol<\/em>, which both include the context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first sources to define a term for covering the context of concepts was the Conceptual Framework developed together with the Beta language. Here there was a need for being able to formulate how to understand nested classes, block-structure from a modeling point-of-view. The Beta Conceptual Framework used the terms localization<\/em> and concept composition<\/em>. As of writing this book, we find contextualization and contextualized concepts to be more precise terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Contextualization is another means for organizing and understanding concepts. Context refers to the environment or setting in which something exists. For modeling, environment or setting is a concept or phenomena. A contextualised concept is only meaningful within the context of a specific phenomena or concept. The concept of a citizen is only meaningful in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1232,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1452","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"mb":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title","gutenberg_elementor_mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oopm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oopm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oopm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oopm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oopm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/oopm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11338,"href":"https:\/\/oopm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1452\/revisions\/11338"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oopm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oopm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}