Re: The horse race
From: Marshall Spight <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 21 Feb 2006 09:38:17 -0800
Message-ID: <1140543497.762336.18050_at_f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
Date: 21 Feb 2006 09:38:17 -0800
Message-ID: <1140543497.762336.18050_at_f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
Mark Johnson wrote:
>
> But as I understand it, relations are not supposed to be sorted.
Relations have no implicit order. This is part of the definition.
> So I
> wondered that if a relation includes a horse's ranking, as a 'thing'
> intrinsic, that one is trying to say that relations can be sorted?
Reviewing the fundamentals of set theory might be in order; this is a very basic question.
Marshall Received on Tue Feb 21 2006 - 18:38:17 CET