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Re: PaceAPPCategories: Why APP is failing.
Henry Story wrote:
But as Kuhn [2] and Feyerabend [3] have very well argued, these types of
debates are not won through argument. People work within paradigms that
forge their vision of the world. So that counterexamples will always be
pushed aside.
I agree that these debates are not won through argument. I don't agree
that they're not won through counterexample, or at least that
counterexample isn't a critical component of debate winning.
I look at your N3 example and I don't see anything there that isn't in
the XML form. Most importantly I don't see what it buys me. I don't see
how it makes my life any easier than non-RDF XML, or how it lets me do
anything I can't already do.
Now if you could show me an example of how to *use* this N3/RDF stuff to
do things I can't equally or more easily accomplish with raw XML, then
I'd pay attention. But every time I go looking for real, practical RDF I
find a huge amount of talk and philosophical arguments but no
significant, practical applications.
By contrast when I look at XML I find numerous practical applications;
and people getting work done while ignoring the philosophy. It's not
that the philosophy isn't important; but philosophy without practical
application is mental exercise at best.
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