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Re: Comparable considered necessary

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• Subject: Re: Comparable considered necessary
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 09:14:30 -0400
• In-reply-to: <200208121300.JAA19884@m...>

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
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