- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 19:47:47 -0500
- To: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>On Monday, October 8, 2001, at 08:02 AM, Martyn Horner wrote: > >>Maybe I missed something in the argument but does `denotation' >>distinguish between numerals (literals) denoting numbers and >>numerals (literals) denoting, say, dates. So the literal "20001225" >>has, at least, two denotations? Does this invalidate this >>definition? Do you mean `unique denotation'? If you don't, how does >>this definition stay valid? > >It's my belief that the literal "20001225" denotes itself, and >properties like :creationDate are really shorthand for >:creationDateStringInXXXForm . That is certainly a coherent position. Literals are self-denoting character strings, but they can have properties. That makes perfect semantic sense and would simplify the model theory, if anything. However it means that numerals don't denote numbers, which will be widely thought to be a bummer, I suspect. 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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