Friday, May 22, 2026

MEANING AND THE DATA MODEL



 Recently I participated in a LinkedIn exchange initiated by the following statement:

 

“First-Order Predicate Logic is quietly breaking enterprise semantics. FOPL assumes meaning can be expressed as predicates applied to entities:

     subject → predicate → object

That works beautifully in theory. It fails in practice. Because the predicate is where ambiguity hides. So you can build vast semantic graphs where:
– entities carry multiple meanings
– predicates encode multiple dimensions
– relationships look precise but aren’t disjoint

It scales connections. Not clarity.” –Robert Vane

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