Re: What do the ontologists want

pat hayes wrote:

> >Are these in fact the two uses in the RDF Model and Syntax?
> >
> >A) Reification is introduced (in section 4.1) in order to make
> >statements about other statements, for the purpose of using a statement
> >without asserting it (Ralph says that Ora is the creator of
> >http://foo/bar...).
> 
> Unfortunately that immediately makes the confusion I have been trying
> to disentangle. 

Argh, so it does. I got it all sorted in my head but didn't notice the
confusion in the M&S words I was paraphrasing. 8-(

Regards,

David Allsopp.

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