- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 21:45:51 +0000
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
At 12:13 PM 11/5/01 -0600, Pat Hayes wrote: >>In particular, the current model theory does not address reification at >>all, so there is no sense that it can be used to close an issue whose >>summary asks: >> What is the relationships between a statement and its reification. > >True, and I wish it did address reification. For reasons that are still >opaque to me, the treatment of reification that I originally offered was >rejected by the WG, but until someone can tell me *what* was wrong with >it, I am somewhat at a loss as to how to proceed. My recollection was that it wasn't a problem with the treatment per se, but that the group did not want (at that time) to get bogged down in a topic that was showing every sign of being a deep rathole for us. I think there was a feeling that reification could be revisited as an "add-on" rather than part of the RDF core. #g ------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Klyne MIMEsweeper Group Strategic Research <http://www.mimesweeper.com> <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com> ------------------------------------------------------------
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