Re: summary of reification?

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>>     <ex:subj> <ex:prop> <ex:obj> .
>>entails
>>     _:r <rdf:type> <rdf:Statement> .
>>     _:r <rdf:subject> <ex:subj> .
>>     _:r <rdf:predicate> <ex:prop> .
>>     _:r <rdf:object> <ex:obj> .
>>?
>>
>>What you say above suggests no such entailment.
>>I think that's fine, but want to be clear.
>
>In a previous life, bc (before core), when thinking of the M&S formal
model
>where it states in:
>
>
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2001Jun/att-0021/00-part#162

>
>[[
>   (P162) There is a set called Statements, each element of which is a
>triple of the form
>
>(P163) {pred, sub, obj}
>]]
>
>that this said that all statements (not statings, this is the statements
>view) just exist, which is I think, equivalent to anything (and nothing)
>entails:
>
>   _:s <rdf:type> <rdf:Statment> .
>   _:s <rdf:subject> <subject> .
>   _:s <rdf:predicate> <predicate> .
>   _:s <rdf:object>    <object> .
>
>for any subject, predicate and object.
>
>So I suggest that if we decide that:
>
>   <s1> <rdf:type> <rdf:Statment> .
>   <s1> <rdf:subject> <subject> .
>   <s1> <rdf:predicate> <predicate> .
>   <s1> <rdf:object>    <object> .
>
>   <s2> <rdf:type> <rdf:Statment> .
>   <s2> <rdf:subject> <subject> .
>   <s2> <rdf:predicate> <predicate> .
>   <s2> <rdf:object>    <object> .
>
>   <s1> <prop> <value> .
>
>entails
>
>   <s2> <prop> <value> .
>
>then to be consistent we must also decide that anything (and nothing)
entails:
>
>   _:s <rdf:type> <rdf:Statment> .
>   _:s <rdf:subject> <subject> .
>   _:s <rdf:predicate> <predicate> .
>   _:s <rdf:object>    <object> .
>
>for any subject, predicate and object.

i agree -- http://www.agfa.com/w3c/euler/rdfr-theory.n3

--
Jos

Received on Thursday, 7 February 2002 08:15:27 UTC