Re: On the usage of the article "the" in Activity Vocabulary

pá 17. 1. 2025 v 16:53 odesílatel Cristiano Longo <
cristianolongo@opendatahacklab.org> napsal:

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> On 17/01/25 15:35, a wrote:
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> > Can we assume, as it would be natural, that every Accept instance must have
> exactly one actor and exactly one object?
>
> No, as these properties are not defined as “functional” (having at most
> exactly one value).
>
> This does not preclude that such properties may be functional on some
> domain restrictions.
>

I’m not sure the RDF vocab, with its functional property constraints, is
even linked to ActivityPub objects. It’s a long-standing bug, leaving it
non-compliant with JSON-LD. Constraints are scattered across the vocab,
spec, mailing lists, wikis, and GitHub.

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> In English, “the” does not always represent a singular instance of
> something, but rather sometimes the general class of that thing. For
> example, a wildlife documentary might refer to “the majestic lion” without
> necessarily talking about one specific lion.
>
> In the descriptions given in the vocabulary, the use of “the” does not
> (and should not be taken as to) imply that a property is restricted to one
> value.
>
> Ok, thank you very much
>