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Re: more politics

• To: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Subject: Re: more politics
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 21:55:47 -0700
• Cc: Mike Champion <mc@x...>, xml-dev@l...
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John Cowan wrote:

> There's no doubt that representations are what's emitted.
> The difference between Pat's 1) and 2) is whether GETting
> http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes/Yosemite.html returns a representation
> of a *document about Yosemite* (reading 1) or whether it returns a
> representation of *Yosemite* (reading 2).  Either is plausible, but the
> difference is as fundamental as the difference between George Washington
> and a U.S. quarter.

Questions: (a) can software detect the difference?
(b) does the difference have any effect on the behavior of the system?

-- 
Cheers, Tim Bray
         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)

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