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   Re: [xml-dev] more politics

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At 07:49 24/07/2003 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>Sean McGrath scripsit:
>
> > I melted part of my brain recently with Saul Kripke's book "Naming and
> > Necessity"[1].
>
>/me pumps fist
>
>Yes!  Yes!  Yes!  Kripke rulez!
>
> > (a) URIs are inherently unknowable beyond
> > their proper names (b) all we can ever have to work with are
> > representations and (c) none of those representations can be relied upon
> > in all possible worlds, therefore I'm with Tim on this one :-)
>
>I think you mean that resources are inherently unknowable beyond their
>proper names, or URIs.

Oops. Yes indeed.

Sean





 

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