[Sigia-l] Data, information, knowledge, wisdom

[Ted Han]

On 6/30/05, Boniface Lau <boniface_lau at compuserve.com> wrote:

> No. A date on a piece of paper with nobody around is still a date
> reference.

This is not true.  The meaning of linguistic symbols are arrived at
via convention (not explicitly so for common language, but that is the
case for techincal terms).  If there really was nobody around who used
that date format, it would quite literally have lost all meaning.

-T