- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:12:23 -0400
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>, www-tag@w3.org
Pat Hayes scripsit:
> Suppose for example I am given the task of telling everyone that some
> URI, say http://myexample.notarealone/Jazz-X , is intended by me to
> denote Jazz. Well, I can say that, but what does it mean? What is
> Jazz exactly?
"Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." --Louis Armstrong
> How do I explain what Jazz
> is well enough so that others can use this URI in the way I intend?
You explain by explaining; there's no getting away from that. If by
"glory" you mean "a nice knockdown argument", fine, but you have
to say so.
> Put the same point another way: how will anyone even know whether or
> not URI-X is invariant? I might say that my URI-X denotes Jazz and
> have one thing in mind, but if 99% of the people who use my URI in
> fact use it with a somewhat different notion of Jazz in mind, then
> that's what it will in fact denote when used on the Web,
> independently of my intentions. So, did the denotation change? Was
> the URI invariant?
It was as invariant as you could make it.
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