- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:06:24 -0400
- To: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>
- Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Marc de Graauw <marc@marcdegraauw.com>, 'John Cowan' <cowan@ccil.org>, 'Technical Architecture Group WG' <www-tag@w3.org>
Harry Halpin scripsit:
> While unlikely, it is possible we will discover a unicorn
> fossil in a remote desert one day.
Actually, I don't happen to believe that's possible, because I think
unicorns are inherently legendary. It's probable that the unicorn
legend arose from distorted knowledge about the rhinoceros, but we
do not identify unicorns and rhinos.
If we discovered such a fossil, I think we might casually refer to it
as a unicorn, but it wouldn't actually be one.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
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