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David Megginson: | Here's an interesting problem -- in the world of DC comics, there exists no time T in which Superman and Clark Kent both exist simultaneously, and as a corollary, there exists no person P such that P is both Superman and Clark Kent. On the other hand, there does exist a person who is always *either* Clark Kent or Superman. Does this constitute identity?| The proposition may be stated incorrectly. If you recall your comic history, Clark wore his Superman costume at all times under his clothes, presumably unless he were going swimming with Lois. Clark was Superman, most of the time, but he became identifiable as Superman when he ripped off his "Clark" clothes and took off his glasses. Clark still was able to perform all the actions that Superman could perform without assuming the costume. Furthermore, you might find instances in which Superman was still wearing Clark's glasses. All of these things are known by us, the readers of the comic or watcher of the movie/show. This information, in the fictional world, was "restricted" to the characters who had access to the knowable data. Therefore, Mom and Pop Kent could know all there was to know about Clark=Superman=Kal-El, in the same way as your Personnel Rep. can access information in a personnel database, which restricts your personal data from outsiders. Lois does know some things about the data pertaining to Clark, and some things about Superman=Kal-El, but she does not have full "read" access to all the data, unless you want to include their post-conjugal relationship in "Lois and Clark," in which she finally gets the full data. I think this is a simple case, in which you have one object = a person, who has multiple identities. You have the same case with actors and musicians who use "stage names" and authors who use pseudonyms. Thanks, Christopher Lane zzyzlane@g... clane2@u... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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