Re: "thou shalt not conflate meta-data with data"

Paul <paul_at_test.com> writes:

> But of course you could just extend the language to include your
> meta-language statements. And then the meta-language ceases to be a
> meta-language, it's just part of your plain language. But of course you
> then need a further meta-language to talk about *that* extended
> language, and so on, ad infinitum.

...and then I suddenly got the urge to re-read Douglas Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid". :-)

-tih

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