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John Cowan writes:
> Simon St.Laurent scripsit:
>
> > URIs identify the untouchable unknowable reality that is resources;
> all
> > we see are the shadows on the wall.
>
> Well, really this is not so mysteriously platonic. After all, when
> we want to refer to Boston, we don't insert Boston (the city) into a
> sentence: we use its name, e.g. in this sentence. And when we want
> to refer to the *word* for Boston, we don't insert the very word into
> a sentence: we use *its* name, 'Boston', e.g. in *this* sentence.
> Assertions can only contain names for things, never the things
> themselves.
Sure, but I can always go to Boston, and have some idea whether or not
I'm in Boston. I've done that before. Might even do it next month.
That's Boston, MA, right?
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Simon St.Laurent
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Errors, errors, all fall down!
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