Re: argument from authority considered pointless from Miles Sabin on 2003-01-22 (www-tag@w3.org from January 2003)

From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 23:16:46 +0000
To: www-tag@w3.org
Message-Id: <200301222316.46742.miles@milessabin.com>

Roy T. Fielding wrote,
> We already established that 2396 defines resource and what that means
> for URIs, and any further discussion of that issue in this forum has
> been deferred.

And Hegel once established that as a matter of logical necessity there 
were exactly nine planets.

Who knows, for some suitably idiosyncratic definition of "planet" that 
might just be true. If you're interested in those idiosyncracies then 
that'd be fine ... but it wouldn't be particularly useful for practical 
astronomy.

Sandro has a practical application, and if that clashes with the 
formalism, then so much the worse for the formalism.

Cheers,


Miles

Received on Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:17:18 UTC