Re: Is relational theory incomplete?
From: mountain man <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:11:51 GMT
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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:11:51 GMT
Message-ID: <Xt3sb.6784$aT.2693_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>
"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote:
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> Given a choice between incomplete and inconsistent, which is the choice
> Goedel proved one cannot avoid, I will choose incomplete any day for a
> formal data model, because external information will always exist in any
> case. Whereas inconsistency will render the logical data model unreliable
> and incomprehensible.
This is actually a reasonable and common sense summation. Received on Tue Nov 11 2003 - 12:11:51 CET