Re: Decision from the Semantics TF: liberal baseline

On 1/10/25 9:47 AM, Thomas Lörtsch wrote:
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>> On 9. Jan 2025, at 15:31, Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I think that the discussion is best formed around which entailements we want, and that the entailments in question all are related to whether the mere presence of triple terms in a graph creates entailments as if they were asserted triples in the graph.
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>> Here are some of the potential entailments:
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>> :a rdf:reifies <<( :b :c :d )>>
>> RDFS entails
>> :b rdf:type rdfs:Resource .
>> I say yes to this one, because everything is a resource so having an IRI in a triple term doesn't really add anything.
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> That [to] me stands in contradiction to the one before. Isn’t everything in predicate position an rdf:Property (or illegal)? Also, what’s the point in making such brittle distinctions when the result is not of any interest.
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Note that this is in RDFS semantics, where everything is a resource.
You might want to add a stronger entailment, but this minimum appears to me to 
be a requirement of the RDF semantics.

The point is that a triple term is not asserted and thus does not need to be a 
property.

peter

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