- From: Thomas B. Passin <tpassin@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 19:36:44 -0400
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
[Joshua Allen] > > cannot identify? URIs are no special in this respect. Saying that > some > > URI can identify cars, while others cannot, is like saying that words > > beginning with "h" cannot be used to identify a car. > > That's not a good analogy. It is more like saying that words that end > in "car" are generally used to identify types of cars. And the analogy > is additionally a bad one because we have the option of carefully > choosing our vocabulary here, while we are stuck with the words we have. > And if you *had* to invent a new word for a new type of car, chances are > that you would create a word that has "car" in it. You mean, like "pickup","coup","convertible","SUV","Mustang", like that? (sorry, I couldn't resist) Ambiguously Yours, Tom P
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