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Re: A Single Foundational Logic for the Semantic Web

From: Jos De_Roo <jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 17:06:14 +0200
To: pfps@research.bell-labs.com
Cc: "www-rdf-logic" <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
Message-ID: <OF2DC0CDC4.7D11DDD3-ONC1256BAD.005176E7@agfa.be>

> > > A simple analysis shows than every formula has to exist in every
model.
> >
> > the simplest formula I can imagine is the empty graph { }
> > and it doesn't have a model/interpretation (it's simply false)
> > how could it exist in every model???
> >
> > --
> > Jos
> >
>
> Simply.  Remember that these formulae are not asserted, i.e., they are
not
> triples themselves, they are just something like quoted expressions.  (Of
> course, there are the triples that represent them *are* asserted triples
in
> the graph. So the formula
>
>     {}
>
> exists in every model/interpretation, but is not a member of log:Truth.

So one could see {} as a name used in RDF (meta) language.
That name corresponds with the empty graph in RDF (object)
language (and has no RDF model/interpretation). We should
never assert both in the same engine.

--
Jos
Received on Thursday, 2 May 2002 11:14:09 GMT

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