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'bag-of-words' of all these representations would be an even more adequate notion
of sense than just the tags explicitly given to a resource. Yet imagine how large of
a landscape this opens for sense, for it allows us to apply search terms, documents,
queries, Semantic Web representations - almost anything! - as part of the creation
of sense in aggregate.
This large aggregation has been phrased as the “database of intentions” by John
Batelle, “the aggregate results of every search ever entered, every result list ever
tendered, and every path taken as a result” (2003). This should remind us that behind
all of these representations are the concrete needs of ordinary users of the Web. Our
task is to now attempt to phrase a philosophical theory of meaning adequate to this
enlarged position of sense on the Web.
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