Re: Unasserted triples, Contexts and things that go bump in the night.

On 2002-03-20 14:25, "ext Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com> wrote:

> 
> Most recently:
> Patrick:
>> I don't see any confusion. The first produces
>> 
>>    :Bob ex:age "35" ;
>> 
>> and the second
>> 
>>    :April ex:age "35" .
>> 
>> Where is the confusion?
> 
> Answered earlier:
>>> Patrick:
>>>> This becomes problemmatic (in a practical sense) if we want to
>>>> use the same vocabularies for both asserted and unasserted
>>>> statements.

I don't see the same issue here. Actually, I consider
the fact that the properties are untouched by the
assertion/no-assertion mechanisms a plus.

The alternate approach based on namespace prefixes, while
doing the job, seems more cumbersome to me. But that
may just be a stylistic quirk of mine.

Patrick

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