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Aristotle's Categories mapped onto Data Vault — substance, relation and accident as Hubs, Links and Satellites. With a companion video and interactive simulation.
Behind the argument
What stays the same when everything about it changes? This essay connects Aristotle’s account of identity and properties with Data Vault’s way of organising information over time.
The comparison maps substance to Hubs, relations to Links and changing attributes to Satellites. A video and interactive companion let readers approach the same idea in other forms.
Reading notes
The argument is that philosophy and data engineering can arrive at comparable structures while addressing the same problem. It does not claim Data Vault’s creators copied Aristotle.
The article invites the reader to take an everyday object and separate what it is from its colour, location or relationships. The companion turns those changes into a visible database log.
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Aristotle's Categories mapped onto Data Vault — substance, relation and accident as Hubs, Links and Satellites. With a companion video and interactive simulation.