- From: Nathan <nathan@webr3.org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:51:34 +0000
- To: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- CC: Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjekje@ifi.uio.no>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, SW-forum Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Here's another quick rewrite: David Booth wrote: > On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 18:55 +0000, Nathan wrote: >>> Can something be both a birth certificate and a red lightbulb? (my intuition says no). > > In a given graph g, a URI u can perfectly well (ambiguously) identify > something that is both a birth certificate and a red > lightbulb, provided that g has no disjointness or other such predicates > that would prevent it from being so. > > You need to know what graph you are asking about, and what assertions it > contains, to answer the question. So perhaps the question being answered is, can we feasibly carry out a conversation where we refer to both a birth certificate and a red lightbulb by a single ambiguous name? using RDF? Possibly, but why even try?
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