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RE: Properties of Properties Question

From: Dickinson, Ian J <Ian_Dickinson@hp.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:59:18 +0100
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To: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
From: Thomas B. Passin [mailto:tpassin@home.com]
> Well, the assertion is a triple so once you reify it you can 
> association information with it by making assertions about the 
> reified statement.  Isn't
> that precisely what reification is for?
Yes, that's what I had previously assumed, but if a reified statement is
still a statement then it contradicts this claim from Peter Patel-Schneider
:

>> (In RDF terms
>> this would probably be using a statement as the 
>> subject of another
>> statement, which can't be done in RDF.)

which he re-inforced with the following:

>> This can't be done in DAML+OIL
>> because assertions cannot have associated information.

Hence my confusion.

Cheers,
Ian
Received on Wednesday, 24 October 2001 04:59:53 GMT

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