- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:51:47 -0700
- To: <bdehora@interx.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>:Pat Hayes: >: >:I don't really care who does the changing, but I do care >: that we aren't confused. > >I agree wholeheartedly. > > >:PS. There is a problem with saying that something is a different kind >:of thing when it is named by a URI; this means that a thing's >:ontological status changes when someone invents a name. So a certain >:star in a distant galalaxy might suddenly become a resource just >:because some astronomer in China puts up something on a website. I >:guess I find this uncomfortable. > >Would you be saying maybe that instead of implying things change >because we in effect name them, we should say that things don't >change (or say nothing), but in RDF some things have names (URIs) >in order that we can usefully describe them. Sure, but when stating a semantics we have to have some RDF-independent way of characterising the universe (or else the semantics gets kind of circular), which is where my (admittedly only slight) discomfort arises. 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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