Re: theory and practice: ying and yang

erk wrote:
> I'd recommend the following article, which is interesting and starts
> with some discussion addressing some of this discussion:
>
> http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/russell.htm
>
> While the domain is suggestive, at least some of the individual pages
> are useful and noncontroversial (?).
>
> - erk
>

for those who think jail should be abolished, i could also suggest Russell's 'introduction to mathematical philosophy'. in that British invention (if i'm not mistaken) of free education for the masses, it is aimed at everyman and among other things aims to say just what is a number? on the way, it talks about relations. written by Russell when he was in jail for re-publishing a report from the US Senate during WWII. i read somewhere that he wrote it after sales of his and Whitehead's massive Principia Mathematica disappointed. even though it doesn't have exercise answers, i think it is a (slightly) better database book than Date's because Russell dropped the Latin. actually, i see that Date has stopped giving answers in his latest 'intro'. too bad, that Kate person on news.com who was mentioned on the dbdebunk site seems to need the answers (apparently she thinks that indexes are a 'key feature' of the relational theory).

i'll shut up now,
p Received on Mon Jun 06 2005 - 17:03:29 CDT