Re: computational model of transactions

"paul c" <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac> wrote in message news:679Bg.321489$Mn5.24831_at_pd7tw3no...
> Brian Selzer wrote:
> ...
>>> (BTW, in neither case does the truth depend on database currency.)
>>>
>> A better example would be:
>>
>> 2) The editor of the New York Times committed treason.
>>
>> That truth does indeed depend on database currency, because that editor
>> could be tried and executed, or at a minimum, fired. In either case, a
>> new editor would need to be hired to replace him.
>
> I'm not always certain about what I say, but that is over the top. Truth
> depends on database? Bass ackwards.
>

You're right, of course. That truth doesn't depend on database currency, it depends on a state of the universe. A proposition's presence in the database, however, implies that it was true at the point of the last update to the database.

> p
Received on Sun Aug 06 2006 - 01:06:41 CEST