- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:49:10 -0500
- To: fmanola@mitre.org, Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>Frank: >I called it a "predicate" because that's the term used in the M&S. If >we've changed it officially, I must have missed it (where would this be >documented?). OK, let me make this a formal suggestion for an item. PROPOSED that: The things called 'predicates' in the M&S shall henceforth be called 'properties' (preferred) or 'relations'. This is in line with the standard usage in the description logic, database and formal logic communities, and is used in the DAML+OIL documentation. The term 'predicate' is deprecated as potentially misleading, since properties are not predicates in the sense that word is usually used in formal logic. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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