- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:30:35 +0100
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
At 06:44 PM 10/25/01 -0500, Pat Hayes wrote: >>1. abstract thing: "statement"; concrete thing: "triple" >>2. abstract thing: "triple"; concrete thing: "triple token" (discourage >>use of "statement") >>3. something else? > >Of these, I like 1. better and I bet it will produce more readable prose, >but we will have to take some care to explain the distinction and not just >assume that the reader knows what we mean. We can always toss in the >'token' for emphasis at critical points. Just to make sure I'm still "on message" (as political spin doctors are required to be): - A statement is an abstract thing that has the value true or false in any interpretation. - A triple is a kind of token for the statement, consisting of a subject URIref, a property URIref and an object URIref or literal. - An arc in a tidy graph (identified by its endpoint nodes and arc label URI) is another kind of token for a statement. #g ------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Klyne MIMEsweeper Group Strategic Research <http://www.mimesweeper.com> <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com> ------------------------------------------------------------
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