Marshall Spight wrote:
> mAsterdam wrote:
>
>>Marshall Spight wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>
> I guess you're saying it's profound that there's
> nothing profound to be said about the relationship between
> internal and externa predicate. I guess I could buy that.
The snipped questions weren't purely retorical.
They pointed in another direction.
Many interesting things happen at boundaries - but they
are interesting only to people who are interested.
Received on Sat Oct 01 2005 - 10:41:02 CDT
