- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:15:13 -0700
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: 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 Indeed. If we have to take this seriously then I withdraw the model theory, since it can't possibly work. Such a beastie, consisting of triples of real things, isn't even a language, so it can't have a semantics. (It also cannot have a grammar, by the way, since BNF only refers to strings of symbols, and my mother isn't a symbol.) Pat Hayes --------------------------------------------------------------------- (650)859 6569 w (650)494 3973 h (until September) phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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