Re: Evanescence of information (was Re: Going NOMAIL: Honeymoon)

Jörg Rhiemeier, On 02/07/2008 15:52:
> I once thought I had an idea for a qualitatively
> better search engine and made it the subject of my PhD thesis - but
> it turned out that my idea was not really that brilliant (I had fallen
> victim to what was essentially a variant of the philosophical language
> fallacy), and I had to abandon the project because things turned out
> to be way more difficult than they seemed to be.
Would you tell us a bit more? What is the philosophical language fallacy, and how
did it confound your ideas about search?

--And.