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Re: [ontolog-forum] Logic, Datalog and SQL

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From: Christopher Menzel <cmenzel@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:01:57 -0600
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On Feb 9, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Pat Hayes wrote:
> ...I think (as I said in
> an email response a few days ago) that the usages
> of "model" in "model theory" and "modelling"
> (respectively realization and prototype) are at
> best unrelated, and at worst almost directly
> opposite in meaning.    (01)

I guess I don't see that, Pat.  Don't, say, a physical model of a  
Boeing 777 and my Tarskian model of the faculty and administration at  
Texas A&M both represent (hence, in some sense, "model") relevant  
structural features of complex real-world things?    (02)

-chris    (03)



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