> >Strictly speaking, objects don't exist.  What does exist are
> >distinctions based on the observer's intentions.  You name distinctions,
> >not objects.
> >
> >Andres.

This brings to mind the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure's description of the 
system of signs that makes up a natural language (considered synchronically) 
as "a system of differences without positive terms". Whether or not this is a 
good way of thinking about natural languages, it seems like an apt 
description for namespaces.

Dominic