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 - 09:14:46 CDT
