Rich, (01)
The problem is that you can not simply "recast this same though" into
technology until there is some sort of agreement terminology. (02)
>[RC] To recast this same thought into currently representative technology, a
>database for a commercial web site has a schema or theory (T) and real or
>actual data (A) stored in the database. IMHO, that means the data (A) is
>grounded in realities about which the data was captured. (03)
Schema and theory are two different notions, which need to disambiguated before
any claims are made about meaning. Database schema in particular is nothing but
data storage format. You can glean (in many cases) some conceptual schema from
data integrity constraints expressed in database schema. (04)
Data is nothing but set of references, which can not even be interpreted
without some theory that exists entirely outside the database. Such theory can
be considered grounded in some realities. But it can not be found in the
database. (05)
>[RC] The semantic
>theory is the database schema (T). So (T) represents the present theory of
>the universe with respect to this database.
> (06)
There is a circular definition in your statement, which undermines soundness of
any reasoning about it. (07)
>That implies that (T) is the set of generalizations or abstractions, while
>(A) is the set of specializations, or individuals.
>
>Is this translation to database terminologies equivalent in your opinion?
> (08)
That depends on what you want to do with it. Obviously it works for isolated
database applications. Equally obvious that will not work for anything else. (09)
>-Rich
>
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>Sincerely,
>Rich Cooper
>EnglishLogicKernel.com
>Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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