Re: Columns without names

"JOG" <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote in message news:1158411539.868369.75730_at_i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
> David Cressey wrote:
> > "JOG" <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote in message
> > news:1158372047.852132.130270_at_p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > > These are potentially different statements to those such as "There is
a
> > > person, Sally" because the latter is stating "There is a person where
> > > name:Sally". The values held in the former assertions have no
> > > discernable attribute name - rather than a tuple such as {
> > > (name:Sally), (age:28)} I just have { (7) } or { (b) }.
> >
> > Actually, "7" is the name of a number, and not the number itself.
>
> Is it? Could you expand on that, as I'm not sure there isn't a
> difference? Is that the same for the letter b? I think at some level I
> am mulling over the concept of atomicity (or non-decomposability) here,
> and how a domain might be defined as a relation itself.
>

Yes, it is. And I can't expand on that. Received on Sat Sep 16 2006 - 16:04:22 CEST