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• Subject: Re: Comparable considered necessary
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 08:36:51 -0400
• In-reply-to: <200208121241.IAA19669@m...>

John Cowan writes:
> Strictly speaking there are no retrievable resources.  What GET does
> is to retrieve a *representation* (possibly one of many) of the
> resource.

URIs identify the untouchable unknowable reality that is resources; all
we see are the shadows on the wall.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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Errors, errors, all fall down!
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