[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Ownership of Names (was Re: Public identifiers and topic maps)
> So let me stress my key point again: there is no such thing as a "public > topic" with no resource. If authors of topic maps need to refer to things > as topics that are outside of their maps, there must be a mapping from the ^^^^^^****^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > name of the topic to its definition. If this mapping doesn't already exist, > then the topic map author must provide it, in the ways I've shown in this > post and in others. This "must" is a question whose answer should be left to the topic map designer, since it is a question on which philosophers (that includes all of us) disagree and that probably cannot be resolved. (Wittgenstein would, I think, call your mapping a kind of "ostensive definition" -- a theory of language that he made it his later life's work, if not to refute, at least to enrich.) S. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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