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   Re: Re: [xml-dev] more politics

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bill.dehora scripsit:

> The AI/ontology wonks really are not doing this to wind us all up or make us
> feel stupid - without the semantics they can't begin to define languages to
> let us write this stuff down in a way that is usefully engineered for the
> semweb *as posited*. No notation without denotation. 

Truly this passage, and especially the last sentence, deserve to be
written up in letters of gold somewhere, right underneath Quine's
"No entity without identity."

-- 
De plichten van een docent zijn divers,         John Cowan
die van het gehoor ook.                         jcowan@reutershealth.com
      --Edsger Dijkstra                         http://www.ccil.org/~cowan




 

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