Re: [ontolog-forum] A minor point I noticed

[Ali SH <asaegyn+out@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ronald,

Didn't you send this five days ago? And didn't Doug Foxvog respond with the following:

http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2013-02/msg00061.html

Did you intend to add something else? I'd be curious to hear your response to Doug's note as well.

Best,

Ali

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Ronald Stamper <stamper.measur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thank you someone for the pointer to Datomics where I found this:  “Datomic info model: a set of facts … things that have happened  . . .  while the past may be forgotten, it is immutable.”

Not so.  Along with directives, assertions etc, we also have, among our speech acts, palinodes to annul or retract propositions used to understand the world we share.  The trodden foot may be expunged effectively from memory by a sincere apology; a court of appeal may quash a conviction etc. In the social world we continually make mistakes and not infrequently act on them irreversibly.  We must take care not to base our information systems, most of which have social implications, on idealised physical theories. 

 

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