High Path Saddle Summit: Ambiguity Pass

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   Insert a virtual context between (1) the pages and locations incorporated in Ridge Route and (2) Ridge Route itself. Call the inserted virtual context "Extent."

   
   

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   You can insert other virtual contexts in a similar fashion

   
   For example, construct a virtual context "Buttons" where a location is incorporated in the set if the location is a link activated by pressing a Ridge Route button that appears on the context page of that link.

   E.g., Ridge Route buttons let you switch back and forth between ridjguid and each of the pages on Ridge Route.
   

3. The definition of a virtual context can be extended from the core into an area of ambiguity

   

   Pages stage_3 and stage_4 and links involving those pages have been added and the links are named with italic letters

   • These additional links come from HyprLink and go through the same process of extension and devlelopment as previously presented

   
   

   Collectively, the links named with italic letters constitute a rudimentary 2-part interface between Water Trail and Ridge Route

   • Buttons and Extent divide the interface into two complementary parts.
   • Links above the diagonal are incorporated in Extent because the link is on a page in the core and the core is extended to include the links in core pages (but not extended to include the pages linked to -- my boundary for Extent cuts through the identifications between links and pages linked to).
   • Links below the diagonal are incorporated in Buttons because each such link is actually activated by a Button.
   • The character of a link as above/below the diagonal is unchanged by re-arrangements of pages along the diagonal.
   • It is easy to construct a similar Water Trail virtual context and to construct similar Extent and Buttons virtual contexts to organize the links in the core of Water Trail and in its interface with Ridge Route

H. Operations

• Explication and Implication are illustrated below (using the convenient if limited method of color blocs)
• Names have been introduced for additional blocs on the graph. Each bloc on the graph constitutes an "extent."

Each of the five locations "Water Trail," "Spirit Voices," "Ridge Route," "Base Camp" and "Kwik Tour" is an ambiguity structure susceptible of analysis:

1. Kwik Tour is an extreme case with no ambiguity. Each link in the yellow area is unambiguously part of Kwik Tour and the concept of Kwik Tour is coextensive with the yellow area. Strip all of Kwik Tour from the website and everything else remains the same (structurally at least).
2. Ridge Route has been analyzed above: Ridge Route has a core and interfaces with Water Trail. There is also an interface with Base Camp. There is no interface with Spirit Voices (i.e., no links in the color bloc)
3. Water Trail presents features similar to Ridge Route (with a reciprocity through their joint interface) plus some additional features related to Spirit Voices, discussed below.
   
4. Base Camp has a core colored in orange. The Extent of Base Camp is ambiguous. For example, there are opposing arguments as to whether Ridjguid should be part of Base Camp. A similar kind of ambiguity in the meaning of a word is sometimes said to be "semantic." (An approach to problems of syntax is set forth in category.

   My personal resolution of the ambiguity:

   

   
   

5. There is insufficient structure in Spirit Voices to support a separate identity. There is nothing to do but append these pages to Water Trail. The pages Exupery and Goethe are involved in simple reciprocating structures with stage_1 and stage_3 respectively. Rudra also connects to Kwik Tour, but because Kwik Tour is unambiguous, this connection is not structurally significant.

All materials copyright by Robert Kovsky, 1997.