Re: Entity and Identity
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:03:19 -0300
Message-ID: <4ac0b41a$0$23767$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
>> You are misrepresenting what I wrote. I did not assert that location
>> is part of state. I said that a difference in location constitutes a
>> difference in state. I said that because an object that can have
>> state can only have one state at a time and because that state can
>> only occupy one location at a time. It therefore follows that if
>> there is more than one location occupied at a given time, then there
>> is more than one object at that time.
>
> I see. Perhaps that's the issue that folk have with the O-O model,
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:03:19 -0300
Message-ID: <4ac0b41a$0$23767$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
Clifford Heath wrote:
> Brian wrote: >
>> You are misrepresenting what I wrote. I did not assert that location
>> is part of state. I said that a difference in location constitutes a
>> difference in state. I said that because an object that can have
>> state can only have one state at a time and because that state can
>> only occupy one location at a time. It therefore follows that if
>> there is more than one location occupied at a given time, then there
>> is more than one object at that time.
>
> I see. Perhaps that's the issue that folk have with the O-O model,
Brian is a bit of a crank. You will find the issue that folk have with the so-called O-O model is a lack of a coherent model and a more-or-less regression to the network model. Received on Mon Sep 28 2009 - 15:03:19 CEST