- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 19:13:49 -0600
- To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>(Personally I like Jeremy's view, anyway...) > >Can someone tell me which of these are using, and which mentioning, 'Jan'? I put quotes in as it is rather hard to *use* a person as a symbol to refer to something else, particularly when he is on a different continent. >The subject of the sentence is "Jan". That uses the quoted expression '"Jan" ' (ie the expression quote-J-a-n-quote, 5 characters) to refer to, ie to mention, the word 'Jan'; it talks about the word, not the person. (That's why one uses quotes.) So this mentions 'Jan'. >The sentence is about Jan. That uses the word 'Jan' to mention Jan, the person. This is the usual way that words are used. So this uses 'Jan'. In the above text, every expression is being used; if the expression is a quotation, then it is used to mention - refer to - the expression inside the quotes. Notice that an expression is never used to refer to itself. >Seems current reification behaves like the latter; is there anything >wrong with this? Nothing wrong, no. But that isn't what the M&S says, so we ought to get this clear. BTW, how do we even know what current reification *behaves* like? Where in the current RDF spec is any behavior of reification specified? >jan > >* Insert quotes as appropriate. I did. 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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