{"id":313,"date":"2005-12-19T22:33:57","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T06:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/scott-lemon-thinks-identity-is-about-being-the-same-as"},"modified":"2005-12-19T22:33:57","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T06:33:57","slug":"scott-lemon-thinks-identity-is-about-being-the-same-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/scott-lemon-thinks-identity-is-about-being-the-same-as\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Lemon thinks Identity is about &#8220;being the same as&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picking up a post by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Windley<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/the.inevitable.org\/anism\/2005\/12\/19.html#a755\" target=\"_blank\">he says he likes<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=identity\" target=\"_blank\">dictionary.com&#8217;s definition of identity<\/a>, which expresses &#8220;being the same as&#8221;. I very much agree.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, in mathematical terms, identity defined this way is a function, returning either a Yes or a No, on two arguments that are being compared. Now that&#8217;s a really simple and useful definition, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally the exact point I was trying to make with my <a href=\"http:\/\/netmesh.org\/slides\/\" target=\"_blank\">This and That<\/a> presentation at OSCON this year: my <tt>This<\/tt> object really wanted to know whether <tt>That1<\/tt> and <tt>That2<\/tt> were the same, and bad things happened because it couldn&#8217;t be sure. Identity doesn&#8217;t have to be that complicated as some people seem to want to make it, does it?<\/p>\n<p>[I recognize there are (many) higher levels &mdash; but why not start with something very simple that is clear and can be built upon? Which coincidentally is exactly the approach we&#8217;ve been taking with <a href=\"http:\/\/lid.netmesh.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">LID<\/a> and now with <a href=\"http:\/\/yadis.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">YADIS<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picking up a post by Phil Windley, he says he likes dictionary.com&#8217;s definition of identity, which expresses &#8220;being the same as&#8221;. I very much agree. Accordingly, in mathematical terms, identity defined this way is a function, returning either a Yes or a No, on two arguments that are being compared. Now that&#8217;s a really simple&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comments","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}