Re: The RM, Newtonian mechanics, algrebra and incompleteness

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 10:24:54 +0200
Message-ID: <40bd8ecc$0$15440$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

mountain man wrote:

> Paul wrote:

>>No, I think in this analogy Newton's model does correspond to a specific
>>database design. The possibility that the relational theory itself is
>>wrong corresponds to the possibility that algebra is wrong.

>
> Or incomplete, as has been formally demonstrated
> at least 30 years prior to the emergence of the RM.

What do you mean? Do you mean that incomplete is wrong? Or that the Goedel-incompleteness somehow implies that any specific database design/relational theory must be incomplete/wrong? What are you saying? Received on Wed Jun 02 2004 - 03:24:54 CDT