On Jan 3, 2012 2:33 PM, "Graham Klyne" <GK@ninebynine.org> wrote: > My discussions with Paolo about viewOf/specializationOf/complementOf suggest to me that there may be no clear formal distinction between things and entities, and that the notion of things (aka "Real World Things"?) is mainly a rhetorical device to explain the intent of the relationships. +1 I don't think we can start splitting things from entities. An entity is just a realisation that when we talk about "things in the world" we are required to make an explicit or implicit characterisation, thus an entity.
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