- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:42:38 -0400
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: uri@w3c.org
Yes, I took your sense of "identity" to be the reasonably tight notion of "one and the same thing as", "selfsame thing as", rather than the more socially-tinged sense of "identity" sometimes encountered for eg in a humanities context, where we might talk about the different "identities" I have online, or how one's identity is culturally constructed or whathaveyou. The advantage of the former sense is that there is so little to it. We live in a world of things/entities/objects of various kinds, and there are taken to be facts of the matter about whether any two references to such entities refer to the selfsame thing or to different things. All the harder-to-model role oriented stuff gets layered on top of this basic worldview... Dan
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