"Adrian Kubala" <adrian_at_sixfingeredman.net> wrote in message
news:slrnbvs1kl.15h.adrian_at_sixfingeredman.net...
> 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.
That's arguable because natural events do leave their mark.
Received on Thu Jan 08 2004 - 23:43:32 CST
