- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:45:39 -0500
- To: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
- Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, www-tag@w3.org
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Dan Brickley writes: > >> HST wrote: > >>> I did say 'to some extent'. A photograph of a painting of George V >>> surely depicts George V, and an MP3 of a wax cylinder of a player >>> piano roll of Rubenstein playing the Hammerklavier is still a >>> rendering of the Hammerklavier. >> >> Only if you assume total coverage of the content of the >> original. Eg. thumbnail images don't depict everything that the source >> image depicts (we went around that block in FOAF). > >Hmm? What _does_ a thumbnail of an JPEG (of a) photograph of the >Eiffel tower depict, if not the Eiffel tower? It *depicts* the Eiffel tower. That does not make it a *representation* of the Eiffel tower, necessarily. It might be being used to represent almost anything. Pat PS. I removed the 'spunkymail' items from your CC line. I suspect they originated from a spambot. Have you cleaned out your system lately? > If you show it to 1000 >people, and as them what it is, I'll bet you all but the most >obstreperous geeks (and Fair Witnesses :-) will say "(a picture of) >the Eiffel Tower". Are they all wrong? > >ht >- -- > Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh > Half-time member of W3C Team > 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 > Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk > URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ >[mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam] >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQFGbXtrkjnJixAXWBoRAs+sAJ9okJdFB6zRgUB5rR8d6jwQ/bMVugCdG/1v >hWcI3oJogGITdzE2iJhDzTQ= >=XlJz >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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