Broader / narrower?

May 19, 2007
mdresser says:

Perhaps a "Broader field of study" and "Narrower fields of study" or "Subdisciplines" property would be useful in organizing these? (i.e. Business Administration is a subdiscipline of Business)

Sep 2, 2008
avic says:

I agree. Currently, for example, philosophy, ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics are all simply "feilds of study". That's fine as far as it goes, but within the philosophy feild of study type we should be able to specify that ethics, epistemolgoy and metaphysics are subdisciplines. I'm not sure what a good name for the reciprocal property of "super-discipline" would be. Perhaps something like "is a subdiscipline of"

Sep 2, 2008
avic says:

Just posting this to crosspost this disscussion.

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Sep 2, 2008
jeff says:

That seems pretty reasonable to me, so I added the two properties to the Field of Study type.
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