Re: Ideas for World Hierarchy Example

> *Claims* do not interest me; I am interested in empirical evidence,
> comparative study, and theoretical foundations.

Empirical - "A central concept in science and the scientific method is that all evidence must be empirical, or empirically based, that is, dependent on evidence or consequences that are observable by the senses". So if The Church says Earth is flat because it is written in the Bible for thousands of years and a lot of good intentioned scholars agree, you would still be inclined to ask "yeah, but where is the evidence", right?.

> A lot of people have come through here with a lot of alternative
> ideas, and so far the number that has impressed me is exactly
> one: Vadim's relational lattice approach, which I note is
> *excruciatingly* well-grounded in mathematics. One of the
> very first things I read about it was its algebraic properties:
> commutativity, associativity, idempotence, asborbtiveness.

Sounds interesting. Could you describe Vadim's relational lattice approach in layman's terms? Has it been implemented as an engine?

> > I wonder if maybe a digraph-ish approach is better
> > for some kinds of applications?
>
> That question is not interesting.

OK, then how about "have you ever met a wine that you didn't dine" :) Received on Fri Jan 12 2007 - 22:23:26 CET