Re: AWWSW Telecon Tuesday 2011-08-30 ?

Jonathan Rees writes:

> This is a good suggestion.
>
> Don't you mean the RDF the other way around though? That is, a URI
> with retrievals yielding a page about the poem, used as a name for the
> poem?

Alas, probably, yes.  I fear that illustrates the point I'll make in
my next message, namely that the example is misleading in a crucial
way for naive readers.

> The problem for me is that while I like my theory, nobody else seems
> to get it, meaning it's still too rickety and poorly expressed to be
> viable. It took years of work to get here, but it still has annoying
> warts, and I'm just too close to it to be able to present it well.

I don't agree -- I don't think there is much wrong here, and we can
fix almost all that is, more than enough to make it worth shipping.  I
remain concerned about the quantification point, but that's in another
thread.

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