QUESTION: What does it mean to place several words in a LM Concept?

ANSWER: In the LM documentation we always stressed that the
interpretation is up to the user. However, a little more could be
said.

The first reaction to several words is probably to say: This must
have something to do with logic! It should probably be a logical
AND. Or perhaps it is an OR??

I say that it is probably wrong. Language is not that much about
logic.

Synonyms? No, I think that is a bad idea; let's agree about that.

Additional question: A common and natural objection to the LM system
is that there is no "header" for LM Concepts. So this system
cannot be described in an orderly way.

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Let's work with an example. For the noun "life" I have about ten
concepts. They run like:

life
life, philosophy
life, social
life, summer, nature
life, dissonance
life, conscious
etc.

and for "conscious" I have about ten choices again.

It could be a list of word senses for "life". However, if we take
that semantic idea a bit further we could say that "the other word"
sets a context (a "frame" or "discourse"). The effect is that your
reading gets on the right track, as if you looked up the matching
word-sense.

Reversely: Looking without presuppositions at the word combinations,
you can invoke a corresponding "preparedness for meaning".

This goes both ways: "Life" is as good as context trigger for
philosophy as is "philosophy" for life.

My conclusion is that both these views are useful:

1) Concepts enumerate word senses.

2) Concepts deliver word sense by giving discourse (context)
triggers.

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I you want to take a more complete grip on "context"
("frame", "discourse"), check out the most recent model addition in
LM: LM Maps

LM Maps gives you a tool for grouping a number of LM Concepts
together. Text, images and line drawing are optional features.

LM Maps is another way of emulating the impact of semantic
"context". In this case a LM Concept can be referred to one
or several LM Maps (groups or "frames" would be a better name).
The database logic is a bit different but the general idea is
the same.

Gunnar Sommestad