On May 18, 2017 10:34 PM, "Pat Hayes" <phayes@ihmc.us> wrote: That is what Descartes claimed. He was wrong. I am more certain that the tree outside my window exists than that I exist. In fact, I am pretty sure that I am a figment of my body’s imagination. Not that this has anything at all to do with RDF, of course. [I was at the dentists a few days ago, with the nitrous flowing in through the nasal mask, and a couple of shots of anesthetic in the lower right side of my face. To check on whether the shots had taken effect, the dentist asked me where I could feel numbness. I voiced strong metaphysical objections. "Urggh", I said. ] Getting back to the original statement, there are a few aspects that lack direct support in RDF. For example, "I" is indexical, and the proposition embedded in the statement is probably tensed (with the time of the utterance being salient). Would it be cheating to represent things as an RDF node of type Cycl / IKL / CLIF assertions, with the actual representation in an attached literal? SimonReceived on Friday, 19 May 2017 05:36:32 UTC
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