What does "Data" mean?

...Crossposted from comp.databases.theory...

An interesting question. Can someone proffer some suggestions?

>"Eric Kaun" <ekaun_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:An3yc.2600
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>>"Anthony W. Youngman" <wol_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > I know. After writing that I thought rather more about what C&D's twelve
> > rules actually are. And that they don't seem to contain any axioms at
> > all.
> >
> > Which leads to the conclusion that relational theory is axiom-free.
> > Which means that it cannot be a valid model.
>
> Some possibilities (I'm running too short on time to explore them):
>
> - The axioms may be simply implicit in his rules
> - What are MV's axioms? If it has them, then we could map at least
> some of them to relational (since there are commonalities)
>
> erk
Received on Fri Jun 11 2004 - 01:09:31 CEST