Josh Matthews schrieb:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Costello, Roger L.
> <>wrote:
>
>> <...>
>> What is Data?
>> <...>
>
> The answer is of sufficient magnitude to fill a book. May I
> recommend the excellent "Data and Reality" (Kent, 1978,
> http://www.amazon.com/Data-Reality-William-Kent/dp/1585009709).
"The accidents of vocabulary: we are most prepared to identify as
entities or relationships those things for which our vocabulary
happens to contain a word. The presence of such a word focusses
our thinking onto what then appears as a singular phenomenon. The
absence of such a word renders the thought diffuse, non-specific,
non-singular."
Quoted from:
Data and Reality [Excerpts] - http://www.bkent.net/Doc/darxrp.htm
--
Michael Ludwig
