Re: [httpRange-14] What is an Information Resource?

On tis, 2007-12-18 at 01:58 -0800, Pat Hayes wrote:
> There is no such thing, I suggest, as 
> a webarch:representation of an RDF graph, just as 
> there is no such thing as one of the number zero 
> or the fourth moon of Jupiter.


If I can't faithfully represent the number 0 using a message, I don't
know of anything I can faithfully represent.

/Mikael

> 
> Pat
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> >/Mikael
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> >
> >>   Compare sending a numeral in some text, using some
> >>  numerical convention, vs. sending an actual number. Maybe if
> >>  'lossless' is the sole criterion, then numbers are IRs also, since
> >>  the literal "123"^^xsd:number seems to be an encoding of the number
> >>  one hundred and twenty three with perfect fidelity. But I'm betting
> >>  that this isn't what was originally intended by the IR idea.
> >>
> >>  Pat
> >>
> >>
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> >Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
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Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose