Re: General semantics
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 08:27:06 -0700 (PDT)
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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. Received on Tue May 11 2010 - 17:27:06 CEST