Re: Higher-arity to RDF binary

On Thursday 20 May 2010 11:32:37 pm Jitao Yang wrote:

> > > > > some:p               eh:assertion             _blanknode1 ;
> > > > > _blanknode1      eh:on                       some:d  ;
> > > > > _blanknode1      eh:value                   some:o  ;
> > > > > some:p               eh:assertion             _blanknode2 ;
> > > > > _blanknode2      eh:on                        some:d1 ;
> > > > > _blanknode2      eh:value                    some:o1 .
> > > >
> >
> 
> What I mean is based on the above representation,

> > The connections are there:
> >
> >    P assertion [on D; value O]
> >
> > encodes the formula
> >
> >    DescPr(D, P, O).
> >
> we can not reason that the value of p is o.

Not using RDFS reasoning, no. Nor OWL reasoning. I didn't
think that was called for; we were originally talking about
/representing/ formulae in RDF, without any requirement
that we be able to deduce -- using RDFS/OWL reasoning --
that from P assertion [on D; value O] we be able to
deduce (D P O). Did I misunderstand?

> The above representation is a RDF reification, do think so?

No. Firstly, it doesn't use the reification predicates. Second, 
even if it did, it's asymmetric -- the predicate P is the subject
of the RDF statement and the arguments D and O are
embedded in the object of that statement -- and RDF
reification is symmetric -- the S P O of a reified statement
R are all values of properties of R.

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