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Re: It's pizza-time again (was: c.d.theory glossary - RELATION)

From: x <x-false_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 15:28:20 +0300
Message-ID: <40963a2a@post.usenet.com>

"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:40937db9$0$64453$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> This was just an introduction to expand on my uneasy feeling
> towards equating 'thing' and 'fact'.
>
> In that context I also used a distinction:
>
> _thing_ :
> pizza, topping, table, clock, customer, onion, order, order-item.
> (now I am not so sure about the last two).
>
> _fact_ :
> "It's 4 p.m", "We are out of onions",
> "the customer at table 12 ordered 2 neapolitan icecreams".

What it takes for a pizza to be a pizza ? :-)

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Received on Mon May 03 2004 - 07:28:20 CDT

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