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Re: The naive test for equality

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 23:13:09 +0200
Message-ID: <42f91c44$0$11065$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>


vc wrote:
> David Cressey wrote:

[snip]

>>The two words,  "synonym" and "homonym"  are borrowed from the argot of
>>natural linguistics,  but the two problems arise whenever data is
>>represented.

>
> In modelling, "synonym/homonym problems" are problems only when they
> are self-induced.

What do you mean by that? I've done quite some practical modelling with teams. I never experienced the problem not coming up. Synonyms and homonyms had to be delt with (and we didn't always succesfully). I'ld appreciate any hints to recognize them as early as possible. Received on Tue Aug 09 2005 - 16:13:09 CDT

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