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Re: Comparable considered necessary

• To: clbullar@i... ("Bullard, Claude L (Len)")
• Subject: Re: Comparable considered necessary
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:10:41 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: jcowan@r... ('John Cowan'), prb@f..., xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <2C61CCE8A870D211A523080009B94E430752B7B9@HQ5> from "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" at Aug 12, 2002 10:00:28 AM

"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" scripsit:
> The name inside the name documents the authority. 
> I have to accept it as being asserted.  I don't 
> have to accept what it asserts.  The URI agreement 
> is the systemic agreement of the former.  The latter 
> is accepted or negotiated.

I don't understand this.  Names don't *assert* anything
at all: they are nouns, not verbs.  But URI names aren't
totally meaningless, any more than "len bullard" is totally
meaningless: it notes the source of authority for the name,
viz. the bullards.

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan@r...  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing
on my shoulders."
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