- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 08:49:17 -0700
- To: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>, <xml-uri@w3.org>
At 05:13 AM 5/23/00 -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >>I am growing increasingly short-tempered at some of the shabby rhetoric >>being used in this debate > >If this general complaint was prompted at all by my Goedel-Escher Bach Nope. I was using "rhetoric" in the formal sense - prose designed to convince the reader/listener of some point of view - and complaining about rhetorical techniques which claim not only that point of view X is wrong, but that belief in X is evidence that its proponents are against URIs, against relative URIs, against RDF, etc etc; all allegations that have been made explicitly and in some cases repeatedly. Maybe I'm losing perspective on this; all I can do is report empirically that this tactic is severely irritating and not helpful in looking for the solution to a hard problem. -Tim
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