- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:30:18 -0500
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.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. Yes, that does avoid a potential problem with "thing". And its close to, but not identical to, "topic". Just make sure to avoid the grammatical implication, is all. Pat > >-- >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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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