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John Cowan writes: > Simon St.Laurent scripsit: > > > URIs identify the untouchable unknowable reality that is resources; > all > > we see are the shadows on the wall. > > Well, really this is not so mysteriously platonic. After all, when > we want to refer to Boston, we don't insert Boston (the city) into a > sentence: we use its name, e.g. in this sentence. And when we want > to refer to the *word* for Boston, we don't insert the very word into > a sentence: we use *its* name, 'Boston', e.g. in *this* sentence. > Assertions can only contain names for things, never the things > themselves. Sure, but I can always go to Boston, and have some idea whether or not I'm in Boston. I've done that before. Might even do it next month. That's Boston, MA, right? -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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