Re: Against Strong Ontological Commitment

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 16:18, Bijan Parsia wrote:
> On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 02:05  PM, Dan Connolly wrote:
> 
> > Why argue against a position that noone has taken?
> 
> Are you genuinely asking or indirectly suggesting I shouldn't?
> 
> Because it's not clear that  no one has taken it.

I don't see how this will make it clear.

> Also, it was involved a non-obvious consequence of the position, one, I 
> believe, may affect some of the weaker views propounded or suggested. 
> So I laid out the argument so we could understand better what might be 
> wrong with SOC.
> 
> And if no one has taken it, what do you care that I chose to refute it? 

I don't. never mind.

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Friday, 10 October 2003 17:57:40 UTC