Bob Badour <bbadour_at_golden.net> schrieb:
> "Adrian Kubala" <adrian_at_sixfingeredman.net> wrote:
>> I don't believe that databasese have any general distinguishing features
>> in and of themselves -- calling something a database describes how it
>> functions in a context.
>
> Calling something a database asserts it comprises a set of facts. The
> context is irrelevant.
It sounds like we are essentially in agreement about the original
question over whether databases can be found in nature, since one cannot
find a "set of facts" in nature, whether one believes that facts can
exist independently of anything for them to describe or not.
Received on Thu Jan 08 2004 - 19:40:37 CST
