Re: The term "theory" as in "database theory"
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:06:58 GMT
Message-ID: <ChOuh.5918$1x.101516_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
>>On Jan 27, 8:11 am, "JOG" <j..._at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>>Dawn wrote:
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>>>>JOG wrote
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>>However, I was starting to think, based on various postings, that my
>>understanding of what "theory" meant in "database theory" was
>>different from some of those who were database theorists. So, I
>>thought I would ask in order to learn and see if I was correct in
>>dismissing the Occam's Razor argument altogether. That relational
>>theory was a mathematical theory was highly significant (and to be
>>applauded), but it became THE database theory, it seems, with its
>>claims that no other mathematical theory could be simpler, with either
>>an assumption or outright statement that the simplest was the best.
>>On that point, there was no rigor at all, it seems. Agreed?
>>cheers! --dawn
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:06:58 GMT
Message-ID: <ChOuh.5918$1x.101516_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
JOG wrote:
> > On Jan 27, 4:59 pm, "dawn" <dawnwolth..._at_gmail.com> wrote: >
>>On Jan 27, 8:11 am, "JOG" <j..._at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Dawn wrote:
>>>
>>>>JOG wrote
>>>>
>>However, I was starting to think, based on various postings, that my
>>understanding of what "theory" meant in "database theory" was
>>different from some of those who were database theorists. So, I
>>thought I would ask in order to learn and see if I was correct in
>>dismissing the Occam's Razor argument altogether. That relational
>>theory was a mathematical theory was highly significant (and to be
>>applauded), but it became THE database theory, it seems, with its
>>claims that no other mathematical theory could be simpler, with either
>>an assumption or outright statement that the simplest was the best.
>>On that point, there was no rigor at all, it seems. Agreed?
>>cheers! --dawn
What a fucking idiotic asshole Dawn is. I suggest anyone who is interested go back and read the first few posts I addressed to this moron years ago. Received on Sat Jan 27 2007 - 21:06:58 CET