- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:56:17 -0400
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Pat Hayes scripsit: > I agree that they are different, but I think you say this wrong. > Neither of them requires interpretation to be what they ARE. But they > both require interpretation to be understood as ABOUT Bill Clinton; > although we usually call it 'recognition' in the first case. As a face-blind person, someone who lacks the ability to subconsciously recognize faces and has to recognize them (if at all) using laborious conscious processing of specific features, I can only agree. I have to "read" a picture to know that it's of Bill Clinton. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia for details.) -- John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Today an interactive brochure website, tomorrow a global content management system that leverages collective synergy to drive "outside of the box" thinking and formulate key objectives into a win-win game plan with a quality-driven approach that focuses on empowering key players to drive-up their core competencies and increase expectations with an all-around initiative to drive up the bottom-line. --Alex Papadimoulis
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