- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:54:22 -0500
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, SWEOIG?@ccil.org, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, www-tag@w3.org
>Henry S. Thompson scripsit: > >> I did say 'to some extent'. A photograph of a painting of George V >> surely depicts George V, and an MP3 of a wax cylinder of a player >> piano roll of Rubenstein playing the Hammerklavier is still a >> rendering of the Hammerklavier. > >Indeed, I will go further and say that "represent" *is* transitive, >when properly separated from types of description that are not >representation. What types of description are not representations? Is a musical score a representation of music? Is Labanotation a representation of a dance? Is a list of driving instructions (turn left, go 15.2 miles, turn right,... ) a representation of a route? Is a list of boundary points a representation of a building plot? Is a list of convex solids encoded using cyclic homology with numerical coordinates for vertex points a representation of a 3-d object in a CAD system? I would say 'none' for the first question and 'yes' for all the others. > There is a limitation on the length of transitive >chains ... Yes, if "represent" means "copy". But it doesn't, in most of the English-speaking world. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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