Re: Literals representing people?

Graham Klyne wrote:

> 
> At 12:49 28/09/03 +0100, Bill de hÓra wrote:
> 
>> Any interpretation of a Literal is (must be) determined by the 
>> property it hangs off. Literals do not have a denotation (that's why 
>> they're literal) - although typed literals confuse the matter slightly.
> 
> 
> This is not true in the current semantics.
> 
> Almost the reverse:  literals are the only form of graph nodes that have 
> a specified denotation independent of the interpretation (model 
> theoretic sense) that is used.

Which is why I say they have no denotation :)

Bill de hÓra