- From: Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 11:37:30 -0400
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Cc: michaelm@netsol.com, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 11:05:33AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Michael Mealling wrote:
> > Thus you are only left with the ability to say that two Resource
> > are only ever equal if they have the same Identifiers...
>
> Your epistemological ("how we know") conclusion is quite correct, but you
> draw an unwarranted metaphysical ("what is true") conclusion from it.
Nope. I just defined the universe to be constrained to two entities
and only two possible conclusions...
> Because you cannot *know*, based on the current (crude) sources of knowledge,
> whether http://www.animal.helsinki.fi/lojban/refgr_f/refgr.html and
> urn:isbn:0966028309 refer to the same resource, doesn't mean that there
> *is* no fact of the matter about it, or that they are *necessarily*
> distinct resources. In fact, as resource owner, I tell you that they
> *are* the same resource, and this message is the authority for it.
True. But your telling me that is outside the bounds of knowable
knowledge on the web. You could say it via RDF or via some television
show on TV for that matter. It still doesn't matter because the web
has constrained the universe to only having Identifiers and Resources and
from that only two allowed conclusions: 1) if the Identifeirs are equal then
the Resources are equal; 2) If the identifiers are not equal then the Resources
are not equal. No it isn't the whole universe and it wasn't meant to be.
Its a substrate on which you can build things that can attempt to, though.
-MM
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