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Re: NULLs: theoretical problems?

From: Jan Hidders <hidders_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:22:47 -0000
Message-ID: <1188523367.163903.141220@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com>


On 30 aug, 06:12, "V.J. Kumar" <vjkm..._at_gmail.com> wrote:

>

> What you are proposing here is a Z crowd way to handle undefinedness,
> one of many really. It's an old, very well know approach called "all
> predicates denote" that some like and some others dislike.

As far as I can see it isn't. I first thought you were right, (hence my previous reply, although I'm still not claiming this is something original) but since Jim asked me about it I read it back, and as far as I can tell they don't have a corresponding notion of syntactical restriction which is pretty much at the core of the approach I'm talking about. So could you give a concrete reference and maybe a short explanationa of why you think it is the same?

Received on Thu Aug 30 2007 - 20:22:47 CDT

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