- From: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:48:02 -0000
- To: "RDF-Interest" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> Individuals are directly perceived; that an individual > exists cannot be denied. Species are abstractions from > reality; a species (or more generally, any concept) is > a "floating abstraction" if there are no individuals to tie > it to reality. In other words, if a species cannot be > "reduced" to individuals, it does not exist. Then in the context of the web, where we do not obtain the resource but only statements about it and representations of it, do we have any individuals at all, or at least anything that we can say is an individual with any degree of confidence? This is stepping into metaphysics though, and metaphysics is a pastime :)
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