Dear Kingsley, (01)
> All,
>
> I am interested in view points about the following claim:
>
> Relations are the fundamental mechanism for expressing Data. Basically,
Data
> Representation is all about encoding Relations. This assumes that all
> observations boils down to perception of relationships (relations) between
> entities. (02)
MW: OK until the last bit. You seem to be equating relationships to
relations. Not a good move in my view. I take a relationship to be a real
world phenomenon and a relation to be a mathematical structure. Whilst
relations can be used to represent relationships, there is certainly not
necessarily a one-to-one relationship between relationships and relations.
For example in relational databases it is common practice to use a single
relation (record type) to represent multiple real world relationships. (03)
Regards (04)
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