- From: Thomas B. Passin <tpassin@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 08:47:08 -0400
- To: public-sw-meaning@w3.org
Graham Klyne wrote: > > This idea of meaning being based in consensus also appears in the work > by Quine that I mentioned the other week [1]. > > A possible difference in position would be that you talk about the > meaning of a URI, where Quine's analysis suggest that it's not the > individual terms but complete statements that have meaning. (I think > that's a point that Pat has been trying to press, too.) > I think that individual terms _do_ have meaning for people. For example, the word "gravity" certainly has meaning for me. It may well be that my sense of its meaning comes mainly from a large collection of statments that I have heard or uttered in the past - along with personal experience - but nevertheless the term itself carries meaning for me. Cheers, Tom P
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