- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:01:33 -0400
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, public-sw-meaning@w3.org
On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 09:50 AM, pat hayes wrote: [snip] > Suggestion: lets decide to NEVER make rules that require consistency. Hear hear. > What we can do is to make rules about what should be done if > inconsistencies are detected, or about who is responsible for clearing > up the mess, or whatever. But if we say that its wrong to be > inconsistent, then the task of being right becomes unmanageably > complex very quickly. Its almost impossible to be SURE you are > avoiding inconsistencies whenever you open your mouth (or your web > server), even if you want to: and as Peter points out, you may well > not want to be consistent with everyone. I don't EVER want to be consistent with everyone. Ever. Certainly not on everything. Hell, I'll diagree with SOMETHING just to maintain this principle. Cheers, Bijan Parsia.
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