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Data & Reality (Kent, 1978)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19305264-data-and-realit...

164 pages. This book has had a bigger impact on my professional work than any other.

tl; dr: Any description of reality is subjective, which means that no data model can be an objectively correct description of reality. The book presents methods for reasoning about data in spite of this.




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