Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

From: x <x-false_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 21:15:15 +0300
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"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:40bb735a$0$15375$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> I'll answer as spontaneously as a can - I hope you
> will explain what you are getting at.
>
> x wrote:
> > When you see 123 what you see ?
> Just a number, and maybe a start of counting.
>
> > When you see 666 what you see ?
> The sign of the beast, or maybe just the number on a house.

> > When you see the *STOP* *sign* what you see ?
> A traffic sign, or a UI-message box.
> A message reading "stop what you are doing".

They have a meaning ?
Are they data ?
Why or why not ?
Are they information ?
Why or why not ?

There is a whole "discipline" that study *signs* and *meaning*. It is called Semiotics.

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