Re: ONT Re: Data Models, Ontologies, Logic

[Jim Farrugia <jim@spatial.maine.edu>]

Jon,

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JA: > So I will not forget that the most important thing about the data
    > is how it refers to the objective world from which it is gathered,
    > in the manner of signs that are abstractedly sampled from objects,
    > by virtue of which sampling they denote the vaster reality beyond.


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JF: You mention one important aspect of data. Why do you claim it's the 
    most important?

JF: What about things like how bits of data can or can't be combined
    (e.g., you can't (or perhaps can but shouldn't) add someone's age
    to someone else's height) ??

JF: Why, for instance, is the connection to the world more important than 
    the possible ways the data themselves can be connected with each other?

JF: I'm not saying I think that data's connection to the world is _not_
    its most important aspect (I haven't thought it through far enough 
    yet), but I wonder why you say it is and why other aspects
    might not be just as important?

Thanks,

Jim