Re: OT (sets and stuff)

From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 6 Feb 2007 09:23:30 -0800
Message-ID: <1170782610.288107.62570@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>

On Feb 6, 8:34 am, "Neo" <neo55..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Formal systems don't have elephants in them.
>
> I didn't get you irony. You didn't get my metaphor.

I understood you just fine. Your "metaphor" indicated you don't understand the difference between the natural world and the abstract world. Many other of your posts have indicated the same thing.

> One can empirically verify that the hierarchal model's method becomes
> unsystematic when representing things with multiple parents.

That's not empiricism.

> One can
> empirically verify that the relational model's method becomes
> unsystematic when it has to resort to NULLs, EAV or stored procedures
> to represent some type networks as in the "Find Siblings of Opposite
> Build" example.

Also not empiricism.

Marshall Received on Tue Feb 06 2007 - 11:23:30 CST