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From: neo55592@hotmail.com (Neo)
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Subject: Re: Do Data Models Need to built on a Mathematical Concept?
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> > Suppose I want to be able to relate any two things
> 
> Well, I just don't see this happening. 
> When do you *ever* need to be able to do that?

Nearly all humans, in the past, now, and in the future do this
practically every single day of their life: related things, any two
things in various types of relations.