RE: resources and URIs

You could research John Sowa's lattice theory for 
more precise language to describe this notion.

Apologies but Google returns far too much material 
to provide a precise URI to start the research 
if you aren't already acquainted with it.  And 
that tells us something about URIs and precise 
identification. :-)

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Klyne [mailto:gk@ninebynine.org]

We agree that we, as people, try to use a URI to refer to 
a "single", more or less consistent, concept that is a topic of 
communication.  But there is no way to formalize this single concept:  I 
think the best we can do is to describe it as a kind of "locus" of 
denotations from interpretations that satisfy some formal statements we can 
make about it.