Re: General semantics
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 17:59:11 GMT
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Nilone wrote:
> On May 11, 2:20 pm, Cimode <cim..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On 11 mai, 07:50, Nilone <rea..._at_gmail.com> wrote:> I just started reading Science and Sanity, by Alfred Korzybski, first
>>> edition published 1933. I was quite impressed by the following line,
>>> derivatives of which I've seen in this group numerous times.
>>> "Because relations can be defined as multi-dimensional order, ...
>>> after naming the un-speakable entities, all experience can be
>>> described in terms of relations of multi-dimensional order."
>>> Anyone else interested in general semantics and it's correspondences
>>> to the relational model?
>> Judging from these few sentences, none. >> Defining relations as *Multidimensional order* sounds more like an >> obscure buzz word than a serious definition. > > I was thinking about Date's admonition against "flat relations". > Perhaps I'm stretching it too far.
From years ago, I remember marketing people talking about 'flat files'. They seemed to attach great importance to the term, as if it meant a way to organize thoughts with absolute certainty. At the time I guessed they meant eliminating repeating groups, which were common in file-based systems, it seemed reminiscent of one or two of Codd's early examples. Don't know, maybe some commercialist bastardized that to 'flat relations', without explaining just how one could flatten a relation, nor just what a non-flat relation is. Received on Tue May 18 2010 - 19:59:11 CEST