- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 16:59:07 -0400
- To: Miles Sabin <msabin@cromwellmedia.co.uk>, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
Miles Sabin wrote: > Lots of perfectly respectable things > manage to have different constituents at different times yet > manage to be non-abstract ... bricks for example. Well, okay, at the quantum level bricks *are* pretty darn abstract, then. I guess "abstract" and "concrete" are relative terms: we talk about "concrete types" in computing science, but outside that realm they are as abstract as anything can be. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
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