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Re: [httpRange-14] What do HTTP URIs Identify?

From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:54:10 -0400
Message-ID: <007401c23f26$22112010$0a2e249b@nemc.org>
To: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
Cc: <www-tag@w3.org> 

Joshua Allen wrote:
[[
I disagree.  The semantic web is an architecture for communication.
Without *words*, communication is meaningless.

But I don't need any theories to communicate with you.  Words are
enough.  All of the theories and sophistry just get in the way.
]]

You don't need any theories to communicate precisely because your brain is
hardwired to deal with human language. If you were endevouring to teach a
machine how to understand language, you'd quickly learn to appreciate such
theories :-)

Jonathan
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