?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=On+Drawing+Lines+on+a+Map&rft.creator=Smith%2C+B.&rft.subject=Metaphysics&rft.description=The+paper+is+an+exercise+in+descriptive+ontology%2C+with+specific+applications+to+problems+in+the+geographical+sphere.+It+presents+a+general+typology+of+spatial+boundaries%2C+based+in+particular+on+an+opposition+between+bona+fide+or+physical+boundaries+on+the+one+hand%2C+and+fiat+or+human-demarcation-induced+boundaries+on+the+other.+Cross-cutting+this+opposition+are+further+oppositions+in+the+realm+of+boundaries%2C+for+example+between%3A+crisp+and+indeterminate%2C+complete+and+incomplete%2C+enduring+and+transient%2C+symmetrical+and+asymmetrical.+The+resulting+typology+generates+a+corresponding+categorization+of+the+different+sorts+of+objects+which+(complete)+boundaries+determine+or+demarcate.+The+theory+is+applied+first+of+all+in+the+areas+of+geography+and+of+administrative+and+property+law.+Indications+are+then+given+as+to+how+the+typology+may+be+applied+also+in+other+fields+where+physical+and+fiat+boundaries+are+at+work%2C+including+the+field+of+cognitive+linguistics+and+the+related+field+of+the+ontology+of+truth.&rft.publisher=Springer+Verlag%3A+Berlin%2FHeidelberg%2FVienna%2FNew+York%2FLondon%2FTokyo&rft.contributor=Frank%2C+A.+U.&rft.contributor=Kuhn%2C+W.&rft.contributor=Mark%2C+D.+M.&rft.date=1995&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F308%2F1%2Fdrawing.html&rft.identifier=++Smith%2C+B.++(1995)+On+Drawing+Lines+on+a+Map.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F308%2F