- From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:56:26 +0100
- To: "dehora" <bill@dehora.fsnet.co.uk>, pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
At 09:31 PM 5/17/01 -0500, pat hayes wrote:
>>in RDF:
>>
>>3: a statement is not a predicate.
>>4: a statement is not a resource.
>
>? I thought a resource could be anything (?) I am still trying to find out
>what 'resource' means, but Dan Connolly tells me that:
>the standard [definition of resource] is RFC2396:
>
>[[[
> Resource
> A resource can be anything that has identity.
> [...]
>]]]
>
>which seems to cover just about anything in the universe, certainly
>including RDF statements.
But if a statement does not have an identity?
Dan's/Mel99 model theory had:
N: the set of resources
S: the set of statements, a subset of (NxNxN)
[...]
>>6: a resource clearly doesn't need to be reified to have a statement
>>made about it.
>
>Not obvious to me at present.
What does it mean to reify a _resource_?
#g
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GK@NineByNine.org
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