Re: I am.

{ :Iam :complementOf :everytingWhatIamNot }. A man is one and its
circumstances.
On May 19, 2017 12:37 PM, "Gregg Reynolds" <dev@mobileink.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 6:26 AM, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org> wrote:
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>> Yes, I is an indexical, and we have in our language one indexical at our
>> disposal,
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>> <>
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>> which is “this document”, so we can formalize “I" as  the author of the
>> document  as
>> in N3 as
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>> [ is dc:author of <> ]
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>> read “the author of this message”
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>> So
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>> [ is dc:author of <> ]  .
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>> Could be read as “I exist”.
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>> Or in plain turtle
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>> <> dc:author [] .
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> Excellent, why didn't I think of that? I stand corrected.
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> I'll go you one better.  English has the copula ("am"), which is lacking
> in many natural languages.  So we can read <> as analogous to the "sum" of
> "Cogito ergo sum".  And since <> is general, we can take it as referring
> not just to identity but to space-time location, yielding <> =
> sum-here-now.  Then if we discard the notion that RDF triples must be
> translatable directly or naturally to Subject-Verb-Object constructions in
> some natural language, we can write
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> <> <> <> .
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> At least I think we can.  I'm not sure how best to gloss it; something
> like "every doc is related to itself by itself (in space-time)"?  Which is
> kinda sorta like "I am", if you squint hard enough.
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> It won't get published in Philosphical Quarterly any time soon, but it
> makes for a pretty good RDF riddle.
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> -Gregg
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>> On 2017-05 -18, at 22:54, Gregg Reynolds <dev@mobileink.com> wrote:
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>> On May 17, 2017 4:46 PM, "Sarven Capadisli" <info@csarven.ca> wrote:
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>> Philosophers and Semantic Web junkies gather around.
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>> Use the the RDF language to represent the following statement:
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>> "I am."
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>> obviously not possible, since "I" is an indexical.  You might as well try
>> "now”.
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>> [ is date of <> ]    # now?
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>> -Sarven
>> http://csarven.ca/#i
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