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Uche Ogbuji scripsit:
> Sorry, Joshua, but you don't get to arbitrate this. Each person is free to
> decide that those things *are* the beach, if he chooses. After all, "the
> beach" is an abstraction of numerous things that people conceive.
Beaches aren't a good example, because their boundaries are vague. I like
to use bricks, because they have a bright-line definition. The URI
brick://ci.nyc.ny.us/13+East+3rd+St?course=1&brick=20 refers to a brick. If
you do a GET on this, and have an appropriate proxy in place, you might
get a picture of the brick, or a description of the brick, or a bare
list of facts about the brick (perhaps including "laid 1872"). But none
of these representations *is* the brick. And bricks are as concrete as
you can get: if a brick is abstract, *everything* is abstract.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan <jcowan@r...>
"Any legal document draws most of its meaning from context. A telegram
that says 'SELL HUNDRED THOUSAND SHARES IBM SHORT' (only 190 bits in
5-bit Baudot code plus appropriate headers) is as good a legal document
as any, even sans digital signature." --me
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