On 5/27/13 2:25 PM, doug foxvog wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 10:05, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> On 5/27/13 9:21 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>>> On 5/27/13 1:23 AM, doug foxvog wrote:
>>>> Most English readers don't know what URIs are.
>>> They know that words are identifiers.
>>> They know that identifiers denote (name or "refer to") entities or
>>> things.
>>> They know that basic sentence structure is comprised of a subject,
>>> predicate, and object. That each of the aforementioned roles are
>>> associated with words in a sentence.
>>>
>>> Given the right examples they will also understand that literals are
>>> the only mechanism for denotation.
>> Correction:
>>
>> Meant to say: literals aren't the only mechanism for entity denotation.
>> On the Web and Internet, URIs are more effective denotation mechanisms.
> I agree with your previous statement.
>
> URIs are literals. They are strings of characters. Appropriate computer
> systems can treat these literals in appropriate ways. (01)
URIs are created using literals, but they function as references. The
referent of a URI isn't its literal value. (02)
Kingsley
>
> -- doug foxvog
>
>> Kingsley
>
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