Re: what RDF is not (was ...)

> > For example, here's some possible URIs for some transcendentals;
> > 
> > http://numbers.example.org/transcendental/pi
> > http://numbers.example.org/transcendental/e
> 
> Sure, but there are only countably many of such URIs, so not all reals can
> have such indentifiers.

Not being countable means not being able to prescribe a naming structure
a priori, that's all.  In other (seemingly convoluted) words;

  Not all real numbers have URIs, but any real number can have a URI.

(because "any" implies that identity has been determined)

Hmm, I can tell below that are you making an invalid assumption.  You
are assuming that we're restricted to identifying reals with a URI
structure such as;

  http://math.org/number/[put some expansion of number here]

That's not the case at all.

[snip]
> This real number is different from all the real numbers represented by
> URIs.

Ok, so I'll identify it as;

http://example.org/numbers/real/peters-example-real

MB
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Received on Friday, 4 January 2002 11:07:15 UTC