Re: DAMl "Thing" should be Top, Universal class - including concrete types from Graham Klyne on 2001-01-30 (www-rdf-logic@w3.org from January 2001)

From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:05:39 +0000
To: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>
Cc: "RDF Logic list" <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010130160059.03fb52b0@pop3.connectfree.uk.com>

At 09:58 AM 1/30/01 -0500, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
>I actually find the idea so odd that I find it difficult to explain why it
>is
>weird.  It shows how different woldviews can be, I suppose. I hope this
>makes sense.

One might say:  one man's abstraction is another's concrete datum?  E.g a 
length measured in metres, acceleration due to gravity, an electric charge 
in coulombs, etc.

#g

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