Timeline for What is the word for something that is based on a prototype?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:38 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 17, 2013 at 17:48 | comment | added | colllin | After further thought, I think a better analogy would be Chair vs. Stool, from Prototype Theory. I will edit my question. | |
| Jul 11, 2013 at 17:39 | comment | added | user22138 | @colllin In what way is an animal a "prototype" of a mammal? Or are you using that word as a placeholder? I may not have understood the comment correctly. | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 20:20 | comment | added | colllin |
Thanks for turning me onto the concept of hypernyms and hyponyms. I don't think that's exactly what I'm looking for. It's true that animal is a hypernym of mammal, but I think I'm looking for this: An animal is a prototype of a mammal. A mammal is a _____ of an animal.
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| Jul 10, 2013 at 18:44 | comment | added | user22138 |
@colllin Yes, I suppose 1.0.1 is always lurking around the corner. Regarding your first comment, are you looking for a hypernym of prototype? (I ask because animal is a hypernym of mammal.) Put another way, do you want a hierarchy of elements beginning with prototype, or would you prefer a chronology?
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| Jul 10, 2013 at 18:44 | comment | added | colllin | Meaning it doesn't leave room for intermediate or successive types, which also have a relationship with a prototype (or several prototypes). | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 18:40 | comment | added | colllin | This is interesting because in the context of software engineering, I would consider the finished product to be more of an archetype than an intermediate type that has both a prototype and an archetype. In other words, a software product is never truly a finished product. It is just a product, which has both predecessors and successors, at least conceptually. And "production unit" describes a particular "type" or "model" that is suitable for productization, rather than the relationship between that type and the prototype. | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 18:11 | history | edited | user22138 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 10, 2013 at 18:09 | comment | added | colllin |
Thank you. All good thoughts. I think the relationship I'm trying to describe is more akin to "Animal is to Mammal" as "Prototype is to _____". Maybe the problem is the word prototype? Still seems strange if there isn't a counterpart that fits this description.
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| Jul 10, 2013 at 17:59 | history | answered | user22138 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |