1. Basic Concepts 1.1 Objects and Records. A fundamental feature of our understanding of the world is that we organise our experience as a number of distinct objects (tables and chairs, blank loans and algebraic expressions, plynominals and persons, transistors and triangles, etc); and our thought, language, and actions abased on the dsignation, description, and manipulation of these objects, either indivisually or in relationship with other objects.
