Both RDF & OWL seem to treat this like a "syntactic" issue. i.e., I don't think there's any real semantics behind the choice of literal or resource. But it does make a difference in MKR. The OWL distinction is DatatypeProperty vs. ObjectProperty which roughly corresponds to attribute vs. relation in MKR. Basically, an attribute is a property of a single entity, while a relation (my narrow sense of the word) is a property involving two or more entities. Here are some simple examples. attribute: length, mass, color relation: before, above, father I make the same distinction between actions and interactions. For example. action: move, eat, speak interaction: causality, concert, conversation Dick McCullough knowledge := man do identify od existent done; knowledge haspart proposition list;Received on Monday, 18 August 2003 14:26:52 GMT
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