Re: Date's First Great Blunder
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:43:58 GMT
Message-ID: <407ff031.9087907_at_news.wanadoo.es>
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:29:31 +0100, "Anthony W. Youngman" <wol_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>"If religion is a belief in what is unprovable, then the only religion
>that can prove it is a religion is mathematics".
This is a nonsense.
>You state that relational database theory is a branch of mathematics. As
>such, what evidence do you have that it actually WORKS! Because if it's
>maths then the only proof you have is that it is *consistent*, and not
>that it is actually relevant to the real world.
To work and to be relevant to the real world are very different things.
>"Relational theory is consistent. Academicians have an unfortunate
>tendency to confuse consistency with truth".
What is the difference in maths?
>Newtonian Mechanics is mathematics.
No, it is physics.
Regards
Alfredo
Received on Fri Apr 16 2004 - 16:43:58 CEST