Re: Database design, Keys and some other things
From: Marshall Spight <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 28 Sep 2005 23:03:35 -0700
Message-ID: <1127973815.601819.70770_at_g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
> Great example. King Milindi's chariot - a bhuddist philosopher used it
> as an argument against essentialism, to illustrate that there is no one
> attribute of an item that can define its essense.
Date: 28 Sep 2005 23:03:35 -0700
Message-ID: <1127973815.601819.70770_at_g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
JOG wrote:
>
> Great example. King Milindi's chariot - a bhuddist philosopher used it
> as an argument against essentialism, to illustrate that there is no one
> attribute of an item that can define its essense.
Sure, sure. Or the Viking Ship, or even just Grandfather's axe. Actually grandfather's axe is the best version of the story because it's the minimal version of the story. This is the sort of thing I found really interesting in high school. Ahem.
> Course, this doesn't stop us
> having usable database admin's handle it with good old common sense,
> but imo it's certainly not a rock solid foundation for the theory.
Oh, please.
Marshall Received on Thu Sep 29 2005 - 08:03:35 CEST