Concept · dictionary entry
Relational Geometry
The structure formed by entities and the typed, evidence-bearing relations between them.
Definition
A relational geometry is the structure formed by a set of entities and the typed relations between them, where each relation carries the evidence that admits it and the context in which it holds. It is the substrate on which valid transformations operate.
Formal reference
Governed Relational Geometry: A Formal Model for Evidence, Context and Valid Transformation — §2
Related concepts
Demonstrations
Limitations
- Not every dataset admits a well-formed relational geometry
- The choice of entity boundaries is a modelling decision, not an observation