On 11/9/10 11:22 AM, Nathan wrote:
Kingsley Idehen wrote:
On 11/9/10 11:10 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
A URI is just an Identifier. We can "Describe" what isn't
unambiguously Identified (Named); hence the use of "Names" since the
beginning of shared cognition era re. human evolution.
A URI is just an Identifier. We can't "Describe" what isn't
unambiguously Identified (Named); hence the use of "Names" since the
beginning of shared cognition era re. human evolution.
ex:about#toucan doesn't name a toucan though, it names, or refers to,
"toucan, as described by ex:about"
Yes, it refers to Toucan by ...... ?
Put differently, Toucan (a Thing observed by the Describer) is the
Referent of the Identifier (URI). Thus, the URI is used to distinguish
the Subject (Tucan) from the surface (Document) from which we perceive
its Description.
Referent, Identifier, Resource trinity :-) The 3 elements (in
combination) deliver comprehensible Representation, to a given beholder.
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