Re: language entailment

On May 18, 2011, at 5:11 AM, Nathan wrote:

> Steve Harris wrote:
>> On 2011-05-18, at 10:07, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:
>>> :a :b "chat"@en-GB .
>>> 
>>> entail
>>> 
>>> :a :b "chat"@en .
>>> 
>>> in any entailment regime defined by the RDF semantics ??

No, there is no entailment regime which supports this (or any other similar entailment).

>> No idea.
> 
> Can anybody confirm, if not is it worth us defining this, seems like a useful entailment.

Entailment means that the conclusion is true whenever the assumption is. What would justify the preservation of truth when a language tag is changed? I actually do not know what the intended semantics of language tags is supposed to be: in the formal semantics they are just opaque labels with no particular meaning.

Pat

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