- From: Shelby Moore <shelby@coolpage.com>
- Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 14:47:24 -0600
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
I am searching the w3c.org to see if I can find a definition of "semantics" that relates to specifications. So far no concise definition found. I did find something related to semantics from Tim Berners-Lee on goals of Semantic Web: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/RDFnot.html#Knowledge "Each field had made certain ___CENTRALIST__ assumptions -- if not in the philosophy, then in the implementations, which __PREVENTED__ them from spreading globally...We __REMOVE__ the __CENTRALIZED__ concepts of absolute truth, total knowledge, and total provability..." http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/RDFnot.html#Surely "The __PROBLEM___ with all such systems was that they were conceptually or physically __CENTRALIZED__. They required link __GLOBAL__ __CONSISTENCY___." So what Tim Berners-Lee is saying is same as what I am saying, which is that you can not centralize semantics. Ian, there are the references you requested to refute your concept of semantics. I will look for more... -Shelby Moore
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