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Actually, the potential for infinite signfieds given a sign never seems to occur in practice. Semioticians puzzled over that one awhile and discovered that communities of interpretation with preferred readings always emerge to limit that infinity. signfied+ or signified* is just a notation for a code picklist. That infinity is an artifact of our specification language; trying to abstract identity from identification processes. If the URI is always dereferenceable, eg, note that if the string is given as a value to a resolver, it will resolve, then the only thing one has to say is that content developers should decide up front if 404 is acceptable. In practice, that works. In theory, it simply means the theory produces an ambiguity. len -----Original Message----- From: Uche Ogbuji [mailto:uche.ogbuji@f...] I would argue that since signifiers in re already bring an infinite potential for confusion, that adding another infinite potential has no discernable effect.
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