On Mon, May 27, 2013 15:00, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> 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. (01)
>> I agree with your previous statement. (02)
>> URIs are literals. They are strings of characters. Appropriate
>> computer
>> systems can treat these literals in appropriate ways. (03)
> URIs are created using literals, but they function as references. The
> referent of a URI isn't its literal value. (04)
Sure. The referent of a URI of a literal is not the full URI, either. The
referent is a string that is a substring of the URI, or a number that
can be expressed as a substring of the URI. (05)
> Kingsley
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>> -- doug foxvog
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>>> Kingsley
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