Re: One-To-One Relationships

From: rpost <rpost_at_pcwin518.campus.tue.nl>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:29:42 +0100
Message-ID: <32f8$47502c66$839b4533$15378_at_news1.tudelft.nl>


David Cressey wrote:

>If a proposition concerning the real world is stated in plain English,
>rather than some formal way, there are going to be some nouns in the plain
>English. Those nouns are going to have referents. Those referents can be
>called "entities". They can also be called "things" or "objects". Whatever
>you call them, there will be objections.

But, as much as I appreciate your leaping in defense of entities: that is subtly beside the point. This discussion is about whether entities are useful, or make sense, as *language* constructs. ER modeling says yes, classical logic and relational modeling say no.

-- 
Reinier
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