Re: database systems and organizational intelligence
From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 18:48:21 +0200
Message-ID: <40bb61cd$0$65124$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
>>Laconic2 wrote:
>>
>>>It has nothing to do with English versus Spanish.
>>>Trust me. It has to do with whether you think that
>>>only physical objects exist.
>>
>>It has to do with whether you think that abstract objects have not
>>physical properties.
>>
>>>Data exists. There is a physical representation
>>>of that data on a CD, for example. That physical
>>>representation is just as real as the ink on paper
>>>is real, or the carvings on the rosetta stone are real.
>>
>>But it is a physical representation of the data, not the data. It
>>resembles me to the primitive people who thought that photographies
>>steal the "soul" of the people :-)
>
> Why store and retrieve are *physical* properties ?
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 18:48:21 +0200
Message-ID: <40bb61cd$0$65124$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
x wrote:
> Alfredo Novoa wrote:
>>Laconic2 wrote:
>>
>>>It has nothing to do with English versus Spanish.
>>>Trust me. It has to do with whether you think that
>>>only physical objects exist.
>>
>>It has to do with whether you think that abstract objects have not
>>physical properties.
>>
>>>Data exists. There is a physical representation
>>>of that data on a CD, for example. That physical
>>>representation is just as real as the ink on paper
>>>is real, or the carvings on the rosetta stone are real.
>>
>>But it is a physical representation of the data, not the data. It
>>resembles me to the primitive people who thought that photographies
>>steal the "soul" of the people :-)
>
> Why store and retrieve are *physical* properties ?
?
Can you please spare me guessing what you mean by rephrasing?
Received on Mon May 31 2004 - 18:48:21 CEST