Re: In an RDBMS, what does "Data" mean?

From: Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 09:26:31 -0300
Message-ID: <pan.2004.05.31.12.26.31.502588@dutra.fastmail.fm>

Em Sun, 30 May 2004 23:06:51 +0000, Alfredo Novoa escreveu:

>>Rationalism is as irrational(/rational) as any oher faith.

>
> What a nonsense!

No, it is not. Rationalism, usually defined as the belief that human reasoning is the sole or sufficient test of truth, is circular reasoning.

Now, this is Philosophy in general. In Natural Philosophy, also known as Science, reason is indeed our only resource. It just doesn't hold water when erected in the sole basis of Epistemology, Metaphisics and Ethics.

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