eless). 

&gt; &gt; 	.	Is that a fair summary, or is there a point
&gt; &gt; you feel I've missed? 

MW: What I miss is what I would call data types, e.g. ASCII strings, double
precision floating point numbers, etc, that are how computers represent
information. 

GH3&gt;	Again, these are concepts, and so are devoid of the 4 traditional
dimensions.

GH3&gt;	I see a major disconnect was that you were not distinguishing
between the conceptual types and the particular instances. From a data or
information manag