ON TRIPLET CLASSIFICATIONS OF CONCEPTS

This paper introduces a scheme for classifications of concepts. It is founded on rile triplet model of concepts. This model depicts a concep t by means of three kinds of knowledge: a concept base, a concept-repr esenting part and the linkage between them. Informally, the concept ba se deals with entities subsumed under a concept and their properties a nd relations. The concept-representing parr deals with tools and forms of representing these entities and their properties and relations in some intelligent system. Tile linkage deals with establishing tile pro per correspondences between components of the base and the representin g part. Each of these knowledge kinds is associated with specific stru ctures related to concepts (symbols, names, statements, images, rests, entities and their properties and relations, procedures of determinat ion of property values, etc.) Various informal and formal (mainly set- theoretical) specifications of these structures serve as criteria for triplet classifications of concepts.