- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:50:57 -0500
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, Technical Architecture Group WG <www-tag@w3.org>, Susie Stephens <susie.stephens@gmail.com>
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 09:44 -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > > On 2007-09 -27, at 16:54, Pat Hayes wrote: > > . Its hard to beat "thing" if we also say that we allow imaginary > > and non-existent things. > > Yes. > > > And its harder still to beat "anything". > > > > But then 'anything' isn't the same part of speech. 'thing' is a > noun, but 'anything' is an implicitly universally quantified > variable. (The Concise Oxford says 'pronoun or noun'). But you can't > say 'the anything' or 'an anything' or talk about the "class of > anythings". I wonder if the "Cool URIs for the Semantic Web" document could get by without ever referring directly to the class. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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