- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:27:08 +0100
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: <bdehora@interx.com>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
At 11:46 AM 7/10/01 -0700, pat hayes wrote:
>PS. There is a problem with saying that something is a different kind of
>thing when it is named by a URI; this means that a thing's ontological
>status changes when someone invents a name. So a certain star in a distant
>galalaxy might suddenly become a resource just because some astronomer in
>China puts up something on a website. I guess I find this uncomfortable.
Is this a problem if it still retains all of the other properties it had
before it was named? Would that make a Resource a subset of
things-with-or-without-URI's?
Otherwise, I do heartily agree the need for clarity and common understanding.
#g
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