- From: David Chadwick <D.W.Chadwick@kent.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 19:26:25 +0100
- To: public-credentials@w3.org
I was going to say statement of fact, but thought than many people would object to that. So I fully support removing claim and replacing it with statement of fact David On 27/06/2017 01:12, Steven Rowat wrote: > On 2017-06-26 4:21 PM, David Chadwick wrote: >> The Issuer is in fact making a statement, so why call it a claim? > > Not true, taken verbatim. I tried working this through in an example, > and came to a problem: > > The Issuer is making a 'statement of fact', not just a 'statement'. > > That is, they are tying their statement to the real world. They are > saying that their statement is true. > > A 'statement of fact' is the same as a claim, in dictionary definitions. > A 'statement' isn't. > > So I agree the word claim could be removed, but only if it's replaced by > the same meaning, ie., 'statement of fact' or an equivalent. > > Steven > >
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