- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:17:59 -0500
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- CC: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, dehora@eircom.net, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Brian McBride wrote:
>
> pat hayes wrote:
> [...]
> > Wait a minute. The subject is a URI, not a Resource, right? The
> > Resource is what the subject (a piece of syntax) denotes, not the
> > subject itself.
That's what you'd think, coming from a logic background, but
as Brian points out, RDF says the subject of
Mary hit the ball.
is a female person, not a word starting with 'M'.
This is mother of all use/mention bugs, IMO.
cf
use/mention and reification: rdf:predicate/subject/object
Dan Connolly (Sat, May 26 2001)
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-logic/2001May/0359.html
> Not according to M&S
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2001Jun/att-0021/00-part#159
>
> 1.(P159) There is a set called Resources.
> 2.(P160) There is a set called Literals.
> 3.(P161) There is a subset of Resources called Properties.
> 4.(P162) There is a set called Statements, each element of which is a triple
> of the form
>
> (P163) {pred, sub, obj}
>
> Brian
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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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