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Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
• To: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:23:13 -0500

On 11/15/13 10:20 AM, Bev Corwin wrote:

How certain are you about that?

    On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Simon St.Laurent
    <simonstl@simonstl.com <mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com>> wrote:

        t's easy: I've learned over the years that people who believe in
        certainty, especially those who believe that they can
        communicate certainty, are dangerous.

        Something goes deeply wrong when people assume that it is
        possible to know things precisely, to name things precisely, and
        to communicate things precisely.  (I'll grant that claims of
        precision are slightly less dangerous than claims of accuracy.)

        I sometimes call it naive positivism, but there are other
        philosophical schools that lead to the same sad place.
          Computers, of course, encourage such delusions, but that is
        largely because they know so little about the world.

--
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/

• References:
  • Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
  • Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: "Timothy W. Cook" <tim@mlhim.org>
  • Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
  • Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
  • Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@gmail.com>
  • Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@gmail.com>
  • Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net>
  • Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@gmail.com>
  • Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau@yahoo.de>
  • Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: "Timothy W. Cook" <tim@mlhim.org>
  • Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
  • Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@gmail.com>
  • Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: Bev Corwin <bevcorwin@gmail.com>