Re: Interpretation of RDF reification

* Peter F. Patel-Schneider
>
> I would be very careful about depending on "X represents the  
> stating of the
> statement".  This is not part of the formal meaning of reification  
> in RDF,
> but is, instead, at best the informal, unsanctioned intent that
> applications might want to put on reification.

I understand. What it tells us (us == RDFTM TF), though, is that the  
informal, unsanctioned intent of this RDF construct does not match  
the TM intent. So it seems clear that we shouldn't use RDF  
reification on the assumption that it is the same.

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Received on Thursday, 23 March 2006 09:01:05 UTC