- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:28:40 -0500
- To: RDF Working Group <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
(Just to get this on the record.) If we find ourselves debating the pros and cons of this issue, I want us to make a clear distinction between two distinct theses, which are conflated in the text of the comment. Thesis 1. In actual practice, a given IRI may be used on the Web to refer to two different things. This can happen in a variety of ways, including an IRI Collision in the sense described by http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#URI-collision, but also by IRIs being used in RDF with different intended meanings. Thesis 2. The phenomenon described in Thesis 1 can be usefully analyzed using the RDF semantics, by saying that the IRI might refer to different things in different graphs. I agree with (1) but not with (2), for reasons which I can explain to anyone who actually wants to know. If the WG accepts the truth of (1) it is important that it not do so in a way which implies that it is accepting (2) as well. Pat ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile (preferred) phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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