- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) <clbullar@ingr.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:51:08 -0500
- To: "'Dan Connolly'" <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Only to the hypertext dispenser (the provider) and the dispenser user (the consumer). Otherwise, it's just colored paper. The dollar changes value, in theory, every time you spend one, so in effect, you never know its exact value (bound at time of transaction) and you only need to know when you spend it. I think Tim's point is the same so many people have tried to make: nothing worthwhile is architected by pursuing this. It is Schrodinger's Cat: if you can't ask the cat, you ask the box the cat is in. If the state is truly indeterminate between two queries, you ask every time or trust that what you get back is what you asked for. If you don't, you validate (Is the cat dead?). Identity is an emergent property; not a native property. That isn't a limit of existence but of reference. "I am that I am"... until you ask me to prove it. len -----Original Message----- From: Dan Connolly [mailto:connolly@w3.org] On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 11:52, David Orchard wrote: > > I find this argument amazingly compelling. I'm on the other end of the spectrum. I disagree so strongly I can't find time to write it down... <snip /> False. Quick analogy: you can never know exactly what a dollar is worth, but boy does it matter!
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