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Types (again)


sapir formulae
[Rick Jelliffe]

 >The only documents that matter are those that are constructed
 >by algorithm from databases.  All that business with single-headed
 >documents, document ID scopes, document types, using attributes
 >to specialize the element, architectural forms-things, scoped attributes,
 >trying to find idioms which could fit into people's heads, the emphasis on
 >readability and writability, all that never happened or if it did
 >couldn't possibly have worked, or if it did work, it worked for
 >other reasons which probably don't apply now that we are
 >much wiser and know that nothing can be done without Types,
 >well at least our types, which are pretty similar to the other
 >mobs types, trust me.

I've just come across this quote which I really like:

"Categories such as number, gender, case, time, mode, voice, aspect and
a host of others...are not so much discovered in experience as
imposed upon it".
- E Sapir
Conceptual Models in Primitive Languages
Science (1931)




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