Re: reification "subagenda"

On 14 Feb 2002, Dan Connolly wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 11:21, Graham Klyne wrote:
> > 1. I agree that M&S allows only one statement with given sub, pred, obj.
> >
> > 2. M&S may not specifically admit more than one reification of a statement,
> > but it also does not (to me) clearly deny the possibility.
>
> Hmm... that's an angle I hadn't considered.
>
> But how do you reconcile point 2. with text like
>   A statement and its corresponding reified statement
> ? That's pretty clear that they're in 1-1 correspondence,
> no?

No, not necessarily in English; at least, I've never read it that way,
although I can see how it might be read like that. Whatever.

> I'm still trying to decide whether I care enough to
> go on record as opposing this decision.
> I think the argument we made for removing
> aboutEachPrefix applies pretty well to reification.

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