Comments on: “Semantic Web is Dead” Revisited (1) http://www.ayman-naaman.net/2008/07/24/semantic-web-is-dead-revisited-1/ Social Media is Made of People! Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:44:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ayman http://www.ayman-naaman.net/2008/07/24/semantic-web-is-dead-revisited-1/comment-page-1/#comment-23 ayman Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:15:18 +0000 http://www.ayman-naaman.net/?p=40#comment-23 Naaman - you are in the graces of other people do declared things as dead; The most notably is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" rel="nofollow">Nietzsche's</a> <em>God is dead</em> statement from around <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gay_Science" rel="nofollow">1882</a>. Like you, Friedrich himself was misquoted. As the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia points out</a>, it was a "way of saying that the idea of God is no longer capable of acting as a source of any moral code or teleology." It's curious to look at religion as an analogy to the dream of a semantic web, but I believe the same holds true. This leaves the world to <a href="http://www.ayman-naaman.net/about/" rel="nofollow">Madmen</a> to look for assertations to retain a system of value in the absence of a divine order [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead" rel="nofollow">1</a>]. Naaman – you are in the graces of other people do declared things as dead; The most notably is Nietzsche’s God is dead statement from around 1882. Like you, Friedrich himself was misquoted. As the Wikipedia points out, it was a “way of saying that the idea of God is no longer capable of acting as a source of any moral code or teleology.”

It’s curious to look at religion as an analogy to the dream of a semantic web, but I believe the same holds true. This leaves the world to Madmen to look for assertations to retain a system of value in the absence of a divine order [1].

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