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Re: theory and practice: ying and yang

From: Tony Andrews <andrewst_at_onetel.com>
Date: 1 Jun 2005 02:15:37 -0700
Message-ID: <1117617337.047961.307890@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> 





Alexandr Savinov wrote:


> One major problem of declarative approach is that sets do not exist in

> reality.




What do you mean by that?  Of course they do!  It is even an everyday
term: chess set, tea set, geometry set.  And we think in sets all the
time: "my friends", "the population of the UK", "pack of cards", ...



How can you possibly say that sets "do not exist in reality"?
Received on Wed Jun 01 2005 - 04:15:37 CDT












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