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Each passage within a fable might have an image. These images might be placed on playing cards. The cards might then be sorted into as many piles as someone might wish. We need an artist to represent all of these images.

This procedure will identify passage categories. It is similar to the method of descriptive enumeration. This method is presented in slides 6 – 8 in a presentation made to e-Gov conference on Sense Making in 2000.

The method is the very core to knowledge science, in our opinion.

Each pile of cards is selected to be a “passage category”. The group of categories (called a category policy in the tri-level voting procedure) represents the semantic representations that are the invariance of the collection.

Notice that the category representation is dependant on the selection process conduced by human hands and visual acuity. The ground truth for the OntologyStream IRR Test is developed by human judgment.

The question is now about the relationship between the categories. These categories can be regarded as locations in a space and some sort of latent semantic indexing used to acquire meaning.

However, the ground truth for the relationships between categories can also be vetted by human judgment. In this way, the use of algorithms can be measured against this human judgment.

If two fables each have a passage category in common, then there is a specific semantic linkage that now is said to exist. In every case where a passage category is shared between two passages, a literature scholar will provide a descriptive phrase for the relationship.

Thus we develop a collection of syntagmatic units { < a, r, b > } where a and b are locations in a semantic space and r is a relationship variable.