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Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> Bill de hÓra posted something on www-tag that's very much worth
> contemplating, even if you don't like it.
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Jan/0301.html
> The juicy bit is:
>
[ Inserting the bit immediately prior to that: -JE ]
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| I would like to TAG to advise on
| the structural relationship between URIs and what it is they
| identify, namely the Resources (hereafter 'things').
> >
> >I offer an opinion. The relationship between URIs and things is many
> >to many. One URI will be used to denote many things. A thing will be
> >denoted by many URIs.
I'll offer a counteropinion:
There is no such thing as a "Resource".
URIs don't Identify anything on their own.
Other technologies (RDF, XMLNS, HTTP, etc.)
*use* URIs to Identify things. The nature of
the thing Identified depends on who's doing
the Identification.
If we dispose of the inconvenient fiction
of a "Resource", most of the metaphysical hooey
surrounding URIs goes away.
--Joe English
jenglish@flightlab.com
- References:
- many-to-many
- From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
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