Re: URI Declarations [Usage scenario 1b]

Help us out here, Pat.  What's the right way?  rdfs:comment ?   
Independent publications (such as ontology specs)? Are we already  
doing everything we can?

Jonathan

On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Pat Hayes wrote:

> At 6:46 PM -0500 3/3/08, John Cowan wrote:
>
> Cutting to the chase, as philosophical debates are inappropriate to  
> this forum:
>
>> > RDF and OWL already have identity built into their model  
>> theories, so
>> > we don't need anything new to have that.
>>
>> They have formal identity, but not grounded identity, and it's  
>> grounding
>> that we need in order to be talking about anything.
>
> Indeed. Exactly. And one cannot get grounding by making purely  
> formal assertions, even if they are called 'declarations' and you  
> have to believe them, on pain of being very naughty. David wants to  
> get grounding, but he's going about it the wrong way.
>
> Pat