- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:29:46 -0500
- To: "John Black" <JohnBlack@deltek.com>
- Cc: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, <public-sw-meaning@w3.org>
> >I think there should be a means for creating names, Right, me too. At present there is no official way to name - to give a name to, to 'baptize' - anything on the Web. All one can do is use names that are created elsewhere, or rely on the sagacity of the reader to figure out what a new name is intended to name from the context of initial use. (? ...all uses? ...all by the owner of the name? ...ignoring the owner of the name? Ah, the familiar debates) >i.e., for creating >rigid designators, as in Kripke, that could be used in all >interpretations to designate the same thing. And I think there should >be a standard way to find out what it is intended that it be used for >with machine readable data, natural language, images, and anything >else necessary to fix its reference. That comes out sounding >like what URIs were said to be, at least the URL kind, at least >if you put related stuff there (also Pat's 'rather lame' example >http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes/PatHayes What is lame about it?). That it can only be understood by human readers, and has no meaning for any software agent. Which I think is exactly your point, right? Pat Hayes -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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