Re: compound propositions

From: Reinier Post <rp_at_raampje.lan>
Date: 19 Mar 2010 21:36:13 GMT
Message-ID: <4ba3ee4d$0$14133$703f8584_at_textnews.kpn.nl>


Bob Badour wrote:

>All the terms I mentioned are fundamental. If I recall correctly, they
>are all defined in 2382-01. Information and data are the first 2
>definitions as I recall.

I wholeheartedly agree with your position that ill-defined terms have no place in formal argument. But requiring the use of someone else's vocabulary, at considerable expense (127 Swiss Francs if I recall correctly), without any indication that it will provide the formal rigor required, takes us out of mathematics into the realm of sectarism.

>[...] Almost certainly not anything to do with
>'relvar' because the standard vocabularies were mostly published before
>TTM where D&D introduced the term.

D&D aren't exactly the focal point of database theory either.

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Reinier
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