Re: sketch of an exposition

On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 10:50 -0400, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
> In the car now but for the moment, let's just say a reasoner doesn't  
> know my wife.

It doesn't know everything about your wife, but it knows
enough to distinguish her from other people for the purpose
of on-line banking, shared calendar access, etc.

> 
> -Alan
> 
> On May 24, 2010, at 10:42 AM, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 10:01 -0400, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>  
> >> wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 09:04 -0400, Jonathan Rees wrote:
> >>>> OK, you've convinced me I'm so incompetent around "reference" that
> >>>> I've completely removed it from my next draft (which I hope to have
> >>>> ready by this afternoon, in time for review before tomorrow's  
> >>>> call).
> >>>
> >>> Gee... I didn't think you were *that* far off... but this bit
> >>> did go too far:
> >>>
> >>> | We'll suppose that (in any given conversation or context) a URI  
> >>> refers
> >>> | to at most one Thing.
> >>>
> >>> A URI refers to at most one Thing in each FOL interpretation; in
> >>> a typical conversation, it's roughly a zero probability event that  
> >>> both
> >>> speakers have the same interpretation. (And even the interpretation
> >>> of each speaker probably evolves over the course of a conversation.)
> >>
> >> I'm not sure I would like to confuse reference (something that  
> >> happens
> >> in the world) with interpretation (something that happens in model
> >> theoretic computations on assertions).
> >>
> >> These are not the same sorts of things.
> >
> > Care to elaborate? It seems to me that they are exactly the same
> > sorts of things.
> >
> > -- 
> > Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
> > gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541  0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
> >
> 

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