Dear Godfrey, (01)
It's not that bad. (02)
> re John's comment on #1 - especially as you must then give unique names
> to
> the names, and then... (03)
MW: A name can be its own identity. More particularly, the string used as a
name can be its own identity. Being a name is strictly about a use of that
string by some community to refer to something. (04)
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> Godfrey Rust
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Practical onomastics...
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> >
> > On 5/20/2010 11:54 AM, Ed Barkmeyer wrote:
> >> I agree with Doug on almost all points below. (I should, since
> >> I said many of the same things.)
> >
> > I also agree with most of the comments on this thread, and I'd like
> > to make some observations:
> >
> > 1. There is no such thing as an ideal naming convention that can
> > be systematically applied to anything and everything.
> >
> > 2. Every naming convention is context dependent, although some
> > contexts are larger than others.
> >
> > 3. Every convention proposed as a globally unique naming
> > convention has been modified many times over and eventually
> > accepted as yet another context-dependent convention.
> >
> > The proof of point #1 is simple: the number of bits required to
> > assign a unique name to everything in the universe would require
> > an even larger universe to store the names. Therefore, most
> > things in our universe cannot be assigned unique names that
> > can be stored in our universe.
> >
> > John Sowa
> >
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