On 1/10/13 5:41 PM, John F Sowa wrote:
> EB
>> >I disagree. That is, the meaning of each pair in the telephone
>> >directory is a proposition of that form, and the pair is a datum. It is
>> >not necessary to express the sentence per se.
> A telephone book gives us a list of paired values. The intended
> propositions are derived by combining the values with some relations.
>
> Instead of quibbling about some email note(s), I suggest that we
> classify the kinds of data: (01)
This could finally address some confusing colloquialisms typically
associated with data -- which I've inserted beneath each of your statements: (02)
>
> 1. Explicit statements of propositions in some language. (03)
Structured Data since these are kinds of propositions are explicit. (04)
>
> 2. Values (names, numerals, strings, etc.) in some kind of
> structures (tables, lists, graphs) together with some
> schema (implicit or explicit) for interpreting the
> structures of values as propositions. (05)
Semi Structured Data since these kinds of propositions are only *sort
of* explicit, as exemplified by the coarse-grained semantics of an RDBMS
schema. (06)
Of course, RDBMS vendors would like to claim otherwise :-)
>
> 3. Values that have become detached from their explanations and
> present a puzzle to be solved before they can be interpreted
> as propositions. (07)
Unstructured Data since these are ambiguous (fuzzy) propositions.
>
> 4. Etc.
>
> John (08)
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