Edit in case @Alex Power sees, I’m interested in knowing what it was you were saying. I had meant for that to be clear, but it probably was not. Sorry about that, but please explain!
I just never actually see A|B above, only the A and B. Am I misreading something? I’ll note that the first example seems to me to have a different form: it’s the only one which doesn’t have an explanation of the relation between A and B at the end.
Gestalt means “an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts”. It is something like that; but sometimes more and sometimes less. The best way to describe it is the operation on a vector-based NLP system that takes {cat|dog} and returns “domestic pet”.
There is a bit of a trick with the first example, {take a card|take a page} and “take a {card|page}” may mean something different.
For the second example, setting up a fork of Debian and setting up a mirror of Debian look very similar up to a certain point, but very different after that point. The term is intended to refer only to the attributes during the timeframe where they look similar.
I have no idea what you mean by this.
Edit in case @Alex Power sees, I’m interested in knowing what it was you were saying. I had meant for that to be clear, but it probably was not. Sorry about that, but please explain!
I think the idea is that if you write {A|B} then it has a meaning that is a combination of the meaning of A and the meaning of B.
I just never actually see A|B above, only the A and B. Am I misreading something? I’ll note that the first example seems to me to have a different form: it’s the only one which doesn’t have an explanation of the relation between A and B at the end.
Gestalt means “an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts”. It is something like that; but sometimes more and sometimes less. The best way to describe it is the operation on a vector-based NLP system that takes {cat|dog} and returns “domestic pet”.
There is a bit of a trick with the first example, {take a card|take a page} and “take a {card|page}” may mean something different.
For the second example, setting up a fork of Debian and setting up a mirror of Debian look very similar up to a certain point, but very different after that point. The term is intended to refer only to the attributes during the timeframe where they look similar.