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Re: Properties of Properties Question

From: Thomas B. Passin <tpassin@home.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:15:58 -0400
Message-ID: <002201c15cd1$13b36a10$7cac1218@cj64132b>
To: <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
[Peter F. Patel-Schneider]

> Restated, what you can do is given a statement (triple) <s, p, o> make an
> assertion about a resource that belongs to the class Statement, is related
> to s via a subject link, to p via a predicate link, and to o via an object
> link.  Whether this has anything significant to do with the original
statement
> (triple) is left as an exercise to the reader, certainly there is only a
> very weak (at best) relationship between the two in RDF.
>

Just so.  That's why I was expressing interest in giving statements their
own identity in that other thread a few weeks back.  Then you could make
assertions about them quite directly.  The current way is (or should be)
really just a convention for the interchange syntax, I tend to think.

Cheers,

Tom P
Received on Wednesday, 24 October 2001 17:10:20 GMT

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