Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

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"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:40bb64d9$0$560$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> x wrote:
>
> > mAsterdam wrote:
> >>x wrote:
> >>
> >>>In order to have a *sign* you have to know the meaning.
> >>
> >>No. I do not know korean. But I can remember the shape,
> >>describe or reproduce korean signs, and ask somebody
> >>who does know korean to interpret them. Now I have data.
> >
> > How do you *know* it is korean ?
>
> Good question.
>
> I don't know for sure. But I have several clues.
> The shapes resemble those I have seen in korean texts (which I know
> are korean because somebody who knows told me). I won't know for sure
> until somebody (I trust) interprets the signs for me.
>
> But even if I see signs of a type I have had no former exposure to,
> there is a good chance that I will recognize them as signs, without
> knowing what they mean.

When I said *sign* I was not refering to the scratch marks. If you see *signs* then you see more than scratch marks.

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