[MD] Gawain

[William Robinson]

Unlike you Ian, Tuples and Data Modelling are not my field.  But here is an
alternative explanation:


Marsha acted very emotionally to my replies to her parable at the beginning

of this thread. I'm ignorant is the field of psychology, but below is a
speculation:



American Scientist reviews a new book that suggests an intriguing hypothesis
- that the reason that the distrust of people with a different skin color,
different values or a different ideology is so prevalent is because the
early development of crucial brain pathways makes it hard for people to
accept new and unfamiliar experiences.



Wexler argues that when people are faced with information that does not
agree with their internal structures, they deny, discredit, reinterpret or
forget that information. When changes in the environment are great,
corresponding internal changes are accompanied by distress and dysfunction.
The inability to reconcile differences between strange others and ingrained
notions of "humanness" can culminate in violence. The neurobiological
imperative to maintain a balance between internal structures and external
reality fuels this struggle for control, which contributes to making the
contact zone a place of intractable conflict.



The eternal male female struggle for control is illustrated in the parable…
according to this theory. Marsha likes males, who are carpets, which leaves
her in charge. She calls this

deferential male attitude: the middle ground. I might be totally off base.
What do you think, IAN?

Robbie





On 1/23/07, ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ha, very good Marsha .... choose your moral, I do get it, honest ;-)
> You don't really want me to talk Tuples do you ?
>
> Data modelling is part of my day job, for the last 10 years or so. (In
> fact it's part of everyone's daily life but they just don't call it
> that - we are forever deciding what to call things and how to describe
> what we mean by them, and how they relate to other things.) So Yes.
>
> That is Yes, but ...
>
> It is that very exclusion of the middles that means I avoid
> "relational modelling" like the objectivist plague it really is.
> (strict binary taxonomy - is or isn't - very convenient for
> "programmers", but too far removed from reality to be much real use.)
>
> So modelling yes; relational modelling, not if I can help it.
> Catwalk modelling, nice work if you can get it.
> Ian
>
> On 1/23/07, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
> >
> > H Ian,
> >
> > At 04:49 PM 1/23/2007, you wrote:
> >
> > >BTW Marsha - how would you summarise the moral of the story if not:
> > >"In life, it is often better not to make a choice between two
> > >choices offered."
> > >Ian
> >
> > As stated in the parable:
> > "The moral is that it doesn't matter if your woman is pretty or ugly,
> > underneath it all, she's still a witch---and don't you forget it."
> >
> >
> >  From Wikipedia:
> > "The relational model depends on the law of excluded middle under
> > which anything that is not true is false and anything that is not
> > false is true; it also requires every tuple in a relation body to
> > have a value for every attribute of that relation."
> >
> > Didn't you state once you were sometimes responsible for data
> > modeling?  Yes?  No?  All of the above???
> >
> > m
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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