Re: Database design

"Mark Johnson" <102334.12_at_compuserve.com> wrote in message news:60dpv1l22brf30libualibu4lgd7nls8lk_at_4ax.com...
> "x" <x_at_not-exists.org> wrote:
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> >"Mark Johnson" <102334.12_at_compuserve.com> wrote in message
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> >> But the order of finish, is. A relation of those in the race might
> >> suggest one, and not the other, won, placed and showed. But someone
> >> might object, that's not an ordering, but simply an unordered
> >> descriptive attribute. I would reply that it represents a proper
> >> order.
> >
> >> But I would further suggest another example, in that case, the one
> >> with which I began. A book. One paragraph does not go just anywhere. A
> >> title cannot appear on page 6 if it properly belongs on page 34.
> >> There's an ordering. There's a sort. Term it, partially ordered, if
> >> one prefers.
> >
> >> And at what point would a relation of paragraphs, say, which would
> >> include a sort attribute, have to be fairly termed an ordered
> >> relation? Or is such simply defined out of the realm of possibility,
> >> which makes it look like mere semantics, by the popular sense of the
> >> term?
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> >Have you read any mathematical book about order ?

> Did you read what I wrote, above?
Yes. Too much prose. Received on Thu Feb 23 2006 - 09:26:54 CET