The artifactualization of reference and "substances" on the Web.

Alexandre Monnin (1, 2, 3, 4)

1 PHICO - Centre de philosophie contemporaine de la Sorbonne
2 IRI - Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation
3 DICEN-IDF - Dispositifs d'Information et de Communication à l'Ère du Numérique - Paris Île-de-France
4 WIMMICS - Web-Instrumented Man-Machine Interactions, Communities and Semantics

In this paper we show that URIs, sometimes dubbed "philosophical proper names, in fact do not always refer as proper names does. We provide an account explaining why, centered around the notion of "resource", central to webarch, and that we qualify ontologically.

Mots clés: Web; philosophy of the Web; artifactualization; reference; identification; resource; access; substance; names; proper names; ontology

Domaines: Philosophie; Web

Alexandre Monnin. The artifactualization of reference and "substances" on the Web.: Why (HTTP) URIs do not (always) refer nor resources hold by themselves.. APA Newsletters, 2012, 11 (2), ISSN 2155-9708, http://www.apaonline.org/APAOnline/Publication_Info/Newsletters/APAOnline/Publicatio. ⟨hal-00672301v1⟩