terminological obscurity

Arthur ajsiegel at optonline.com
Fri May 28 08:56:40 EDT 2004


On Fri, 28 May 2004 09:01:46 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis"
<martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

>
>So: No, "homogenous data" is *NOT* a tautology. It refers to
>inherent properties of the elements of the list, not to the
>fact that they are members of the list.

Is the random set of, say, 10 human beings homogeonous or
hetereogenous?

Or is that a meaningless question, as the answer depends purely on
context?

Are objects that have hundreds of attributes each, and that conform as
to a single attribute, which attibute accounts for there presence
together in a list, meaningfully homogenous - outside of the fact of
their presence together in the list?

Art




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