- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:56:44 -0500
- To: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>At 07:04 PM 6/26/01 +0100, Brian McBride wrote: >>Yesterday we also activated >> >> http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdfms-identity-anon-resources >> >>I think this is more of a semantic question, but it does affect the syntax >>of n-triple. I'd also like a volunteer to own this one. > >I'll volunteer to own this. You beat me to it. > >Having reviewed the issue, the first question I have to ask is this: > >In the current RDF specification (that we are chartered to clarify), >is this a purely syntactic issue, or does the "model" also allow for >anonymous resources? If "model" means the set-of-triples abstract graph syntax, the answer is surely yes, in the m&s. If it means 'domain of semantic interpretation', the concept of 'anonymous' isnt really defined, but there would be no harm in letting nameless things be in the domain; that would be the usual logical convention. (If you insist not, so that everything has a name, then there is an implicit closed-world assumption on any vocabulary, which would make RDF reasoning sharply nonmonotonic, which is probably a mistake.) Pat --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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