Re: pfps-16, proposed resolution (revised)

At 22:27 09/04/2003 +0300, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
>Graham:
> > Here, I find it difficult to match changes exactly with issues raised.  In
> > his comments, Peter raised a number of objections about the comparison 
> with
> > database and n-place predicates, and the changes were made to address 
> those
> > concerns.
>
>Looking in the archive I found:
>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2003JanMar/0320.html
>
>where Peter seemed mainly concerned about ill-thought claims concerning
>expressive power. Deleting the single sentence addresses that problem.
>
>I can't see any others in the archive - what I am missing?

The relevant messages are:
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2003JanMar/0154.html
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2003JanMar/0315.html
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2003JanMar/0320.html

which I interpreted to embody a complaint that RDF does not express the 
same as an N-ary predciate.

>The LC text does not claim that the RDF representation is equivalent, merely
>that it is an expression of, an n-place predicate or a n-column table.

Well, I thought that was part of Peter's problem.  For this point in this 
particular document, I thought it was sufficient to indicate that the 
binary predicate form could be used to express the facts commonly 
represented by (say) an n-column database table, which I think it does.

>The primer does not deal with this problem, which is why I thought we had 
>this
>text in the first place.

I'm not sure, now, what "this problem" is, that is not covered by the 
proposed revised text.

#g


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