Quoting "Bob Morris" morris.bob@gmail.com:
Or, one could simply read http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3305#section-2.3 (subtitled "Confusion"). From now on, I intend to refer to rfc3305 as "The Frege RFC").
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Bertram Ludaescher ludaesch@ucdavis.edu wrote:
For those wishing to delve more into such subtleties, I can recommend this philosophical digression on the difference between 'sense' and 'reference' and the 'meaning' (pun intended of course) of it all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_and_reference
In fact, I just heard this podcast that explains it all (sort of): http://philosophybites.com/2010/10/michael-dummett-on-frege.htm
Next up: A discussion of what is a "species"! (just kidding -- but I did find it amusing that experts in taxonomy wouldn't start by recognizing that there are multiple species concepts... and then start arguing about how to classify them instead of arguing which one is the right one ;-)
Bertram
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Bob Morris morris.bob@gmail.com wrote:
Is it too pedantic to wish that people would not use "resolve" when they mean "dereference"? The terms are distinguished in RFC 3986[1]: "URI "resolution" is the process of determining an access mechanism and the appropriate parameters necessary to dereference a URI; this resolution may require several iterations. To use that access mechanism to perform an action on the URI's resource is to "dereference" the URI." [1]
I bet the concensus answer to my question is "Yes". Sigh.
[1]http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
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