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rdf semantics and timelessly true

From: Nathan <nathan@webr3.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:03:15 +0000
Message-ID: <50A3C0C3.6010501@webr3.org>
To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
CC: Sergey Larionov <s.larionov@rks.karelia.ru>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>

Hi Pat,

Pat Hayes wrote:
> Its not impossible, and in a strong sense this is required by the current RDF semantics, which treats all RDF assertions as timelessly true.

Can you refine / expand on this please? I'd presumed RDF to have no 
consideration of time - e.g time-less; as opposed to being true for all 
time (timeless).

TIA,

Nathan

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