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Taxonomy Concepts

Attributes: Attributes are concept-slots (placeholders) associated with Objects.   They may be empty (null) or have values which may in themselves be other objects.

Graphs:  Graphs are representations of relationships between objects.  The representations may take various forms such as diagrams or written descriptions.

Inheritance:  The concept of defining an child object in terms of form, structure, or other characteristics of one or more parent objects.

Methods: Actions used to effect changes to objects.  Methods may be either general or specific with regards to one or more objects or classes of objects.

Networks:  Networks are specific instances of Graphs.

Objects:  Objects are generic concept forms (sometimes called classes) that are describable and differentiable.  They may be either instantiable or not and if not are referred to as "abstract" objects (or classes).  By "instantiable" we mean that an object may have a physical (as opposed to conceptual) manifestation.

Polymorphism:  This generally refers to objects or nodes that are described by virtue of their own unique properties plus those of one or more other objects (parent objects).  Parent objects normally appear at locations or nodes closer to the root and thus those nodes or objects that inherit are referred to as children or child nodes or child objects.

Trees:  A subset of Graphs that contain only branches with no links to other branches.