- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:26:56 -0400
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Technical Architecture Group WG <www-tag@w3.org>, Susie Stephens <susie.stephens@gmail.com>
Tim Berners-Lee scripsit:
> So, Pat, what would be a better word which we should use instead?
> The class of all ____ s? The class of which all classes are
> subclasses is the class of ____ s?
Subjects, in accordance with the OED's definition 13a: "That which forms,
or is chosen as, the matter of thought, consideration, or inquiry; a
topic, theme." Using "subject" rather than "object" or "thing" allows
us to talk about the imaginary as well as the real.
--
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan
Sound change operates regularly to produce irregularities;
analogy operates irregularly to produce regularities.
--E.H. Sturtevant, ca. 1945, probably at Yale
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