Re: Eurocentrism, incorrect unit abbreviations, and proprietary Royalist Engish (sic) terms

On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 at 08:00, Martin Hepp <mfhepp@gmail.com> wrote:

> Since the Web of Data is using the Open-World Assumption, the fact that
> you do not have a triple at hand that refers to a mountain as included in
> an offer does not imply that it is not rentable etc.
>

and yet it is so convenient to read meaning into missing data, e.g.
https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1365#issuecomment-405212998


> It really makes no sense to attach commercial properties to things, they
> are much better attached to offers that refer to things. That is, in a
> nutshell, the essence of the GoodRelations conceptual model: That products
> and offers are best represented as two distinct entities. I am sure this
> idea had been around before GoodRelations.
>

Perhaps a variation on  "All problems in computer science can be solved by
another level of indirection" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirection

Dan


> Best wishes
> Martin Hepp
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> > On 13 Jul 2018, at 12:06, Anthony Moretti <anthony.moretti@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > On Martin's point, because there isn't temporal logic everything should
> be assumed present tense. So "rentable" implies "presently rentable" not
> "potentially rentable in the future". So even though it's theoretically
> possible to rent out a mountain it's not a rentable mountain in my view
> until the offer exists.
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> > Anthony
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> > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 2:34 AM Hans Polak <info@polak.es> wrote:
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> > On 13/07/18 01:25, Joe Duarte wrote:
> >> We could easily write a spec mapping the human syntax to
> machine-readable codes.
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> > Last time I checked, "easily" was not the case. I believe that human
> syntax is quite complicated to map... but I am not a linguist.
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> > If we are "divided" on how to use a word, how are we going to be
> "united" on grammar?
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> > My €0,02
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> > ~ Hans
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