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Re:Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers by rocqua on Sunday May 28, 2023 @07:53AM (#36103235)
The concept of an identifier comes with the concept of a bijection (or at least a injection). That is a truly basic concept in Mathematics.

You could argue Mathematics is a human construction. But at that point, isn't every concept a human construction? In that case it is hardly helpful, or meaningful to say a concept is a human construct, since all concepts are.

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Re:Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers by imtringued on Sunday May 28, 2023 @08:55AM (#36103577)
The problem isn't the concept of a bijective function, it is picking the right function and that is a social problem.
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