Re: Preferable alternative to 'resource'

Tim Berners-Lee scripsit:

> So, Pat, what would be a better word which we should use instead?    
> The class of all  ____ s?  The class of which all classes are  
> subclasses is the class of ____ s?

Subjects, in accordance with the OED's definition 13a: "That which forms,
or is chosen as, the matter of thought, consideration, or inquiry; a
topic, theme."  Using "subject" rather than "object" or "thing" allows
us to talk about the imaginary as well as the real.

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John Cowan    cowan@ccil.org    http://ccil.org/~cowan
        Sound change operates regularly to produce irregularities;
        analogy operates irregularly to produce regularities.
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