Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

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"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:40bb6c28$0$34762$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> x wrote:
>
> > mAsterdam wrote:
> >>x wrote:
> >>>mAsterdam wrote:
> >>>>x wrote:
> >>>>>In order to have a *sign* you have to know the meaning.
> >>>>
> >>>>No. I do not know korean. But I can remember the shape,
> >>>>describe or reproduce korean signs, and ask somebody
> >>>>who does know korean to interpret them. Now I have data.
> >>>
> >>>How do you *know* it is korean ?
> >>
> >>Good question.
> >>
> >>I don't know for sure. But I have several clues.
> >>The shapes resemble those I have seen in korean texts (which I know
> >>are korean because somebody who knows told me). I won't know for sure
> >>until somebody (I trust) interprets the signs for me.
> >>
> >>But even if I see signs of a type I have had no former exposure to,
> >>there is a good chance that I will recognize them as signs, without
> >>knowing what they mean.
> >
> > When I said *sign* I was not refering to the scratch marks.
> > If you see *signs* then you see more than scratch marks.
>
> We may not have a clue as to *what* the
> purpose or meaning is, but yes, indeed.
> Seeing signs when seeing scratchmarks implies a notion
> that they do have *some* purpose or even meaning.

When you see 123 what you see ?
When you see 666 what you see ?
When you see the *STOP* *sign* what you see ?

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