nception of the world as composed of 'things', that
it falls naturally into tuples notation where a thing is the relate of
each symbol, that it draws on a static theory of prediciation assumed in
such a system, and-- most persuasively for computational purposes-- that
it fits nicely with the physical primitive of relational databases: the
Boolean bit.  So within a certain range it is workable, and on its own
terms invincible.

It will predictably prove decreasingly useful as we move away from the
range popu