Re: An alternative RDF

On 11 Jul 2014, at 09:14, Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org> wrote:

> * Tara Athan <taraathan@gmail.com> [2014-07-11 03:51-0400]
>> On 7/10/14 10:59 AM, Pat Hayes wrote:
>>> RDF is an assertional language, and by its very nature is capable of expressing contradictions.
>> Aside from giving the same name to two different named graphs, what
>> sort of contradictions can be expressed in RDF - without going to at
>> least the RDFS entailment regime?
> 
> I think you are agreeing with Pat. Victor was talking about
> contradictions in his domain (program) which RDF was unable to
> prevent. An trivial example would be
> 
>  <Bob> :gender "M", "F”.
Nice one.
But of course, many people or domains of discourse would see no problem in this.
Which is sort of the point, perhaps.

:monster :species :bull, :man.
No problem for the ancient Greeks either.

That’s what is great about RDF (well, one of the things…)
Cheers
> 
> (Note that OWL could detect that error, as could Resource Shapes,
> Shape Expressions, ...)
> 
> 
>> Tara
>> 
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