- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 14:31:15 -0500
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>Pat Hayes wrote: > >[...] > >>Ah, that is a nice idea. It has some odd consequences, though. >>Graphs with number labels cannot be stored inside computers, send >>over packet-switched networks, printed, etc... They have to be >>Platonic graphs, not data structures. And why stop at numbers? ;-) > > >This sets my antenae twitching. > >One of the problems with the earlier M&S document's formal model was >that (at least in my interpretation of it) the use of platonic >statements, platonic resources etc led to all sorts of horrible >confusion. > >This is one of the reasons I felt the need for a model theory and >why I preferred to have it based on n-triples - because that was >clearly a concete syntax. I've bought the idea that the graph is >also a concrete syntax, so using that is fine. > >I personally would be real nervous if we were losing the clarity of >that distinction between a concrete syntax and what it means. We'll >be back to graphs containing resources and questions about what >exactly is a resource, which so far, we have brilliantly managed not >to need to answer. Yes, I agree. Maybe I should have said 'elegant idea'. 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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