RE: live meaning and dead languages

> From: Jeremy Carroll
> [ . . . ]
> The trick, in natural language, is that the meaning of terms 
> is somewhat loose, and moves with the times, while still 
> having some limits.

This is exactly the difference between *core* assertions and *auxilliary* assertion, as described in URI Declaration in Semantic Web Architecture:
http://dbooth.org/2007/uri-decl/
The *core* assertions prescribe the limits of how the meaning of a URI should be interpreted; the *auxilliary* assertions are the looseness.



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Received on Friday, 6 February 2009 13:38:05 UTC