Re: A Normalization Question

"Neo" <neo55592_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4b45d3ad.0407172143.703b8c6a_at_posting.google.com...
> > > I claim the string 'brown' is a fact.
> >
> > The string "brown" is a value.
>
> The string 'brown' is a value in the context of a tuple and attribute,
> not by itself. Here we are discussing the string 'brown' by itself.

No, that's exactly what I meant: the string "brown" is a value, all by itself.

> The problem is the use of the word true in true proposition. Better to
> think of a proposition as either existing or not existing in a db.

Existing-in-the-db === true.
Not-existing-in-the-db === false.

Marshall Received on Sun Jul 18 2004 - 02:17:59 CDT