Re: Network Example: Sibling of Opposite Gender

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:28:26 GMT
Message-ID: <_mElh.38888$cz.572215@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

Marshall wrote:

> On Dec 30, 1:28 pm, "Neo" <neo55..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>

>>JoeAnn's age is 33 and it's gender is both male and female.

>
> I admit I haven't been following this thread too closely, but
> I have to ask: can you be more specific about how you
> see gender as behaving? In particular, now that you apparently
> allow an entity to be "both male and female" I wonder if you
> can enumerate all the possibilities, and their opposites as
> well? Is it:
>
> gender opposite
> -----------------------
> (male) (female)
> (female) (male)
> (male, female) ()
> () (male, female)
>
>

>>In addition, I now add that black and white are opposites. Then I get
>>the thing whose relationship to black is the same as john's gender's
>>relationship to mary's gender.

>
> Can you be more clear about what you think "opposite" is? Is
> it just a named bunch of named pairs? In other words, are
> you doing this entirely by name?
>
> Do you by any chance have a real-world use-case for a
> query like "the thing whose relationship to black is the same
> as john's gender's relationship to mary's gender."

I hope you do realize that you are quibbling over semantics with a psychotic delusional. "Opposite" means exactly what Neo's neighbour's cat tells him it means. Nothing more and nothing less. Received on Sat Dec 30 2006 - 19:28:26 CST