Open cameronmore opened 4 weeks ago
Those properties always struck me as at odds with the other participates in
subproperties. I don't mean contradictory, just that the other subproperties describe some type of participation in a process, whereas sends and receives are more about participating in a specific type of process (Act of Communication
). As such I would think that sends
should be a subproperty of agent in
and receives
a subproperty of is affected by
.
Before I offer any more opinions, though, I'd like to hear from someone who knows the history of these properties. Were they included to support some need?
Yeah I agree the language of encoding is very agential and decoding is very affected. I think swapping out 'encoding' with 'concretizing' helps me envision what processes are occurring--like as the sender of a message, I'm taking an ICE from my thoughts and concretize it in some material entity which then changes in location, and due to the nature of communication, the receiver is affected by the content
I have a few thoughts about these properties, and I would like to hear others' thoughts as well.
Perhaps it's a labeling issue, but since sends/receives are tied to processes of communication, it is more difficult to coin labels for supply chain processes since sending and receiving themselves are very general in natural language.