by rights

[Tara2]

I asked this here. Can it be "by right"? Is "right" like "correct"?

" We observe in passing that the term inconsistent analysis ought by rights to be "incorrect analysis." However, we stay with the former term for historical reasons."

An Introduction to Database Systems, 8th edition, C J Date

 

[SoothingDave]

(as) of right (or by right)

• as a result of having a moral or legal claim or entitlement.

• I would expect the singular here, or "by all rights."

 

[SoothingDave]

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/by-all-rights.2173515/

"By all rights" means if the world is fair and reasonable, if it operates according to the rules one would expect.

 

[Tara2]

So for you "right" here mean #1 not #2?
1- 1. Conforming with or conformable to justice, law, or morality: do the right thing and confess.
2- 2. In accordance with fact, reason, or truth; correct: the right answer.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/by+rights

 

[SoothingDave]

Yes. He is saying that if the world were perfect, the subject would be called "incorrect analysis."

 

[Tara2]

Yes. He is saying that if the world were perfect, the subject would be called "incorrect analysis."

Sorry that I ask again I know you are right, but I'm confused still. Since in my thread in EO, Franco-Filly used the word 'correct' instead of 'right' not 'low, morality'.
by rights = if we wanted to be 100% correct [??]

 

[GoesStation]

by rights = if we wanted to be 100% correct

Yes.

 

[SoothingDave]

The definitions of #1 and #2 are not mutually exclusive. Because it is a correct description, in a perfectly just world the subject would be called "incorrect analysis."

 

[bubbha]

"by rights" is a set phrase.

 

[jutfrank]

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/by-rights