- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 14:29:36 -0400
- To: semantic-web@w3.org, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
>> On Jul 28, 2020, at 5:53 AM, Henry Story wrote:
>> one can not infer from
>>
>> LauraLane believes { Superman a FlyingBeing }
>>
>> that
>>
>> LauraLane believes { ClarkKent a FlyingBeing }
>>
>> even though the person writing that statement has asserted in the DB
that
>>
>> ClarkKent = Superman
In RDF I would be inclined model the parts in curly braces above as
separate named graphs, and to give each name a separate URI, so the URI
for Superman would be different from the URI for ClarkKent. So far so
good. But then Pat wrote:
On 7/29/20 12:52 PM, Patrick J Hayes wrote:> Named graphs are not
opaque, and should not be given an opaque
> semantics, because ‘cool URIs’ should have the same meaning everywhere.
> The superman-morning star examples should not arise in a Web context.
Could you explain more what you mean? Why wouldn't the superman example
arise in a Web context?
Thanks,
David Booth
Received on Wednesday, 29 July 2020 18:29:50 UTC