- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:00:36 -0600
- To: Hugh Glaser <hugh@glasers.org>, David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org, Aiden Hogan <aidhog@gmail.com>
On 11/27/18 1:13 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote: > It feels rather churlish to pick up one point among all your excellent postings, David, but here goes. :-) > >> On 27 Nov 2018, at 02:49, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote: >> >> ... >> It is hard for very smart people to see why concepts that are simple to them are *not* so simple for others who have significantly less intellectual horsepower. > … > Perhaps this could additionally read something like: > It is hard for people who put lots of intellectual horsepower into working on a concept to see that something that seems simple to them may *not* be so simple for people who choose not to deploy their intellectual horsepower the same way. I think this talk of intellectual horsepower is unfortunate and inaccurate, suggesting as it does some kind of innate difference between the great brains in the ivory towers and the rough-fingered morlocks who write working code. What makes the difference is more like familiarity with the ideas, or lack of it. I confess, to me things like thinking of a bnode as an existentially quantified variable, or of a class as being a set, are just second nature, because I've been thinking this way for about 30 years. On the other hand, understanding how RDF relates to OO programming boggles my imagination. Pat > > And, I might add, on something more useful to them. > I think this may be part of the balance you are trying to change. > > > -- ----------------------------------- call or text to 850 291 0667 www.ihmc.us/groups/phayes/ www.facebook.com/the.pat.hayes
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