Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!proxad.net!64.233.160.134.MISMATCH!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nf3.bellglobal.com!ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Bob Badour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: Resiliency To New Data Requirements References: <1154537754.724909.69430@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <1154547571.725368.261540@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1154551861.994244.18980@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1154555295.338590.101020@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1154708356.981012.290750@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <0BSAg.51201$u11.46250@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com> <1154749202.528524.213300@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <1154760896.607518.210310@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1154908552.808341.33560@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <1154909308.302856.298320@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1154917990.541899.254090@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <%LFBg.36175$pu3.473127@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca> <1154968099.257427.212440@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 19 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:57:45 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.176.125.208 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aliant.net X-Trace: ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca 1154998665 142.176.125.208 (Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:57:45 ADT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:57:45 ADT Organization: Sympatico-Subscriber Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:44055 David Cressey wrote: > "Neo" wrote in message > news:1154968099.257427.212440@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > >>>My suggestion for most general uses only a single concept: set. >> >>In my search for the most general method of representing things, it >>appears I may have re-invented via trial and error what is essentially >>the basic part of lambda calculus and set theory. What lambda calculus >>calls expression, and what set theory calls set, is what I have been >>calling thing. Thing is the general form of all things. > > My sweet lord! > > Neo has discovered that everything is a thing! This seems to be the > ultimate "theory of everything" (T.O.E.) Don't you mean the BIG theory of everything? (BIG T.O.E. ?)