Subject: Re: Parents disinherit their children
From: pandeng@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Steve Schafer)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:39:26 GMT
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On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:48:49 -0400, you wrote:
>However, I'm concerned about the logical inconsistency in this
>statement as currently written. In common usage, both technical and
>genealogical, the statement that A is the parent of B clearly implies
>that B is the child of A. Why is this common understanding of
>language broken here? Is there anything that can be done to fix it?
Perhaps it would be better to say that a node is the "owner" of its
attributes and the "parent" of its children.
-Steve Schafer
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