[tdwg-content] HYVIÄ linkkejä: moneen TÄRKEÄän asiaan: Re: "resolution" of URIs usually used improperly

[Mauri Åhlberg]

Quoting "Bob Morris" <morris.bob at 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 at 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 at 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
>>>
>>> Bob (The Pedant) Morris
>>>
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>
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> Robert A. Morris
> Emeritus Professor  of Computer Science
> UMASS-Boston
> 100 Morrissey Blvd
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