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• Subject: Re: many-to-many
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:58:13 -0500
• In-reply-to: <200301232040.h0NKepr26183@d...>

jenglish@f... (Joe English) writes:
>I'll offer a counteropinion:
>
>There is no such thing as a "Resource".
>
>URIs don't Identify anything on their own.
>Other technologies (RDF, XMLNS, HTTP, etc.)
>*use* URIs to Identify things.  The nature of
>the thing Identified depends on who's doing
>the Identification.
>
>If we dispose of the inconvenient fiction 
>of a "Resource", most of the metaphysical hooey 
>surrounding URIs goes away.

Sounds cool to me.  I just want to know where to look for
representations anyway - and it's hard to have a conversation with a
metaphysical concoction.

  
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Simon St.Laurent
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