Re: Database design, Keys and some other things

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 16:14:46 +0200
Message-ID: <433e9925$0$11077$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>

Marshall Spight wrote:
> JOG wrote:

>>I disagree wholeheartedly with you that 
>>the philosophy of what information actually is, 
>>and the consequences that may have for encoding and
>>manipulation of it, is irrelevant to database theories.

>
> I don't believe I ever took that position.
>
> However, there is a definite trap in this general area, which
> is the trap of thinking that there is anything profound to
> be said about the relationship between the internal and the
> external predicate. That relationship, between the database
> and the world it models, exists only in the minds of the users
> of the system, and it is wholly an illusion, if you will.
> This is an important point, and it is also a philosophical one.

And both profound and relevant. What does exist oustide the minds of the users? This relationship is a shared illusion. How did it come into being? Received on Sat Oct 01 2005 - 16:14:46 CEST