Re: Network Example: Sibling of Opposite Gender

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."

Marshall Received on Sun Dec 31 2006 - 01:48:04 CET