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

[Boniface Lau]

> From: 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.

But that is not what I meant. When something was written down as a
date reference, it remains as a date reference even though when there
is nobody around at a particular moment in time.


Boniface