[om-list] Improved schema terminology

[Mark Butler]

Hello everyone,

I was just thinking that perhaps "comparative schema" is a better 
general name than "child schema" to describe any schema other than the 
root, given that the whole point is to compare anothers beliefs to your 
own. 

A foreign schema best describes "what someone else believes", rather 
than "what I beleive someone else believes", an "impersonal comparative 
schema" is a more accurate term.

Revised definitions:

Schema 

   A qualified interpretive model of knowledge and belief. What an 
author personally believes or what he beleives another to beleive.

     Root Schema

       Direct beliefs of a primary author
       (e.g. what I believe now)

     Child Schema

       Beliefs or assertions held in the past or regarding the beliefs
    of others.

         Current Impersonal Schema

           A child schema containing beliefs about the current beliefs
        of another
           (e.g. what I believe another believes). Also known as a
        diplomatic schema.

         Historical Impersonal Schema 

           A child schema containing beliefs about the beliefs of an
        other at some time
           in the past or as represented in some creative work

           (e.g. what I believe another beleived at some time in the past)

           - Impersonal schemas may in principle be repeated to
        arbitrary depth
             (he said that she said that he said...)

         Historical Personal Schema

           A child schema containing personal beliefs held at some time
           in the past or as represented in some personal creative work
           (e.g. what I believed when I was young)

    Foreign Schema

    A schema created by a different author, regarding his beliefs or the
    beliefs of others

Schema Properties

      The author of a schema is the belief modeller,
      The author of a child schema is generally the same
      as (or closely related to) the author of its parent schema.

      The source of a schema is the subject who holds the beliefs
      being modelled. The source of a child schema may have no
      relation to the source of a parent schema.

  - Mark
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