- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:18:42 -0400
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: public-sw-meaning@w3.org
> 1. Earth, world, globe -- (the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet on
> which we live; "the Earth moves around the sun"; "he sailed around the
> world")
>
> A few centuries ago it was not a globe, but a flat thing and it was not
> the 3rd planet, it was the centre of Universe.
This is about the point to go off and read _Naming and Necessity_, I
think. Naming is a lot more about effective communication than it is
about the truth of definitions.
-- sandro
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