Re: Decision from the Semantics TF: liberal baseline

I'm going to try to pull out what I think is the crux of the matter in the 
discussion.

The issue in question is, I think, whether
   :a rdf:reifies :b .
is like (actually even stronger than)
   :john :name "John" .
where "John" is a string, no matter whether the triple is asserted or not,
or like
   :name rdfs:range xsd:string .
   :john :name :b .
where :b is only a string if both triples are asserted.

That is, does an rdf:reifies triple entail that its object is a proposition in 
every graph that contains the triple as a triple term.

You can put these more directly into RDF 1.2 as three graphs
   :alex :believes << :a rdf:reifies :b >>
and
   :alex :believes << :john :name "John" >> .
and
   :name rdfs:range xsd:string .
   :alex :believes << :john :name :b >> .

So, using extended RDF 1.2,
does the first graph RDF1.2-entail
   :b rdf:type rdf:Proposition .
like the second RDF1.2-entails
   "John" rdf:type xsd:string .
or is this *not* the case
like the third does *not* RDF1.2-entail
   :b rdf:type xsd:string .

Note that I am assuming that this last entailment is not going to be part of 
RDF 1.2.  Otherwise my analogy breaks down.

peter


On 1/8/25 8:11 AM, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:
 >
 > On 08/01/2025 14:04, Doerthe Arndt wrote:
 >> Dear Pierre-Antoine,
 >>
 >> Just a short answer for the first because I think my point did not get 
through:
 >>
 >>> Am 08.01.2025 um 11:42 schrieb Pierre-Antoine Champin 
<pierre-antoine@w3.org>:
 >>>
 >>> Dear Dörthe, Enrico,
 >>>
 >>> On 07/01/2025 18:10, Doerthe Arndt wrote:
 >>>> Dear Pierre-Antoine,
 >>>>
 >>>>> Am 07.01.2025 um 17:01 schrieb Pierre-Antoine Champin <pierre- 
antoine@w3.org>:
 >>>>>
 >>>>> My 2 ¢ about 
https://github.com/w3c/rdf-star-wg/wiki/RDF-star-%22liberal- 
baseline%22#rdf-semantics
 >>>>>
 >>>>> - for the sake of homogeneity, I would keep only reif1 and reif2 in RDF 
Semantics,
 >>>>>   and push reif3 in RDFS Sedmantics (which would simply mean to add the 
axiomatic triple rdf:reifies rdfs:range rdf:Proposition . This is for the sake 
of regularity. I don't think that RDF semantics has any "range-like" 
entailment for the moment.
 >>>>
 >>>> I personally agree with you, but where to put that rule als depends on 
what we want in general. There is the possibility to make rdf:reifies  some 
kind of „special“ predicate for which we derive that the subject is always a 
rdf:Proposition even when occurring nested. I  really do not want to have 
something like that for all domain declarations. So, if we want to make that 
the subject of rdf:reifies is always a rdf:Proposition regardless of it 
occurring nested or not, then it should be done like that. Whether we want 
that is of course a different question.
 >>>
 >>> Agreed. I should have been clearer: in my opinion, the condition on RDF- 
interpretation should rather be
 >>>
 >>> ⏩ |<x, [I+A](rdf:Proposition)> ∈ IEXT([I+A](rdf:type))|
 >>>           if |x ∈ dom(RE)| ⏪️
 >>>
 >>> without the additonal  "or if |∃ y . <y,x> ∈ IEXT([I+A](rdf:reifies))|", 
and therefore reif3 would be moot.
 >>> Instead, I would add the latter condition in RDFS as the axiomatic triple 
'rdf:reifies rdfs:range rdf:Proposition', which would have the same 
consequence (in RDFS).
 >>>
 >>> But I will not die on that hill...
 >>>
 >>
 >> I understood, but my point was that
 >>
 >> rdf:reifies rdfs:range rdf:Proposition
 >>
 >> would not do the same because we would NOT get from
 >>
 >> rdf:reifies rdfs:range rdf:Proposition
 >> :a :b <<( _:r rdf:reifies _:p )>>.
 >>
 >> that
 >>
 >> _:p a rdf:Proposition.
 > I missed that part indeed, sorry.
 >>
 >> and the purpose of the rule as it is is to make this derivation happen 
while not supporting that for example
 >>
 >> :know rdfs:range :Person.
 >> :a :b <<( :bob :knows :pasta )>>.
 >>
 >> yields
 >>
 >> :pasta a :Person.
 >>
 >> This would make rdf:reifies a special predicate with some kind of „super 
range“  which even works on nested triples. I am really opposed to making all 
ranges „super ranges“ by default. I am also not convinced we need it in this 
case, but maybe we do?
 > I certainly don't! 🙂 and I don't think I want it for rdf:reifies either.
 >
 > As a matter of fact, while the reif3 entailment pattern does provide this 
special case for rdf:refies, I don't think that the semantic condition on RDF 
interpretation does!... It says
 >
 > |<x, [I+A](rdf:Proposition)> ∈ IEXT([I+A](rdf:type))|
 >            if |∃ y . <y,x> ∈ IEXT([I+A](rdf:reifies))|
 >
 > and IEXT([I+A](rdf:reifies)) only covers /asserted/ triples with the 
rdf:reifies predicate.
 >
 >>
 >> Kind regards,
 >> Dörthe

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