- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:45:57 -0800
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> > Please, let's keep things straight here. Bill is a human being. > >Yep... I already pointed out "that was a typo". > > > In fact, most human beings don't even have associated URIs, > >I know.. but we can talk about properties of humans, and if we bring all of >these properties under one node, one URI, then we can use that node to >refer to when we want to re-use those properties. Does that make sense now? That makes logical sense, but I don't honestly think it makes what might be called Web sense. That is, I don't think that we can ever expect that all the information about anything is going to be gathered together in one place. (Who is "we" exactly, in your sentence above?) That seems quite contrary to the spirit of the Web, in fact. More seriously, it is likely to give highly misleading conclusions if relied upon; for example, census data based on the assumption that people are 1:1 with home pages would give highly skewed results. >It's a similar thing with HTML - my homepage isn't me, but it does have >(useful?) information about me. Yes, but surely it doesnt have *all* the useful information about you; and, more to the point, what about all the people who don't have a home page? Surely we ought to be able to at least *refer* to them? Some of them might even be mentioned in an ontology somewhere. I know of at least one world-famous theoretical physicist who doesn't even have an email address, let alone a home page, and he's not even in a third-world country. Pat Hayes --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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