Re: Columns without names
From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:50:31 GMT
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:50:31 GMT
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JOG wrote:
> Faced with a data collection something like:
> Tom is aged 20, Dick is aged 30 and Harry is aged 40
>
> I find it apt to view a relation predicate for them as:
> "There is a people_relationship where name is X and age is Y"
As written, I would say this is a predicate ABOUT another predicate. (It
would tempt me to think that I want to manipulate people-relationships
rather than names and ages.) Ignoring the possible constraints, surely
the relationship is about people and and their ages. Wouldn't a more
likely predicate be "person X has age Y"?
p
Received on Sat Sep 16 2006 - 16:50:31 CEST