Re: "In Defense of Ambiguity" from Ian Emmons on 2008-07-10 (semantic-web@w3.org from July 2008)

From: Ian Emmons <iemmons@bbn.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:47:33 -0400
To: semantic-web@w3c.org
Message-ID: <487604E5.1040507@bbn.com>

> However, Hayes is still overly pessimistic about the
> difficulties of communicating in the real world.  We humans
> have been communicating successfully for thousands of
> years.  It is not that difficult to shift our communication medium
> to the World Wide Web.

Really?  In my experience, "communicating successfully" is a 
surprisingly rare thing, especially when we are talking about 
communicating with precision.

Received on Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:48:13 UTC