Re: [LegacyUG] Facts vs Events

[Chris Coward]

Coming late into this discussion.  "John Doe had red hair" has been 
quoted as an example of a fact in several e-mails. In my way of doing 
things it would be a "physical description"  event. You only know that 
he had red hair at the time of the description or photograph. When I was 
18 I was blonde and skinny.  Now I am grey haired  and unfortunately can 
no longer be dscribed as skinny.  Hair colour may not be an event but 
the act of  describing  in words or photos is an event. Any description 
of physical appearance is time dependant and therefore an event. The 
same could probably now be applied to eye colour. People change their 
eye colour with contact lenses.
I suspect the same reasoning could be applied to most facts.
My 2 pence worth...

Matt Henderson wrote:
All Events are Facts.  But not all Facts are Events.  This is true in
Legacy.
An event that happened is a fact. 
But a fact that John Doe had "Red Hair" is not an Event. 

 


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