Re: Properties not predicates (was Re: PRIMER: draft data model section)

I'd support this motion, with "properties" being my preferred term. 
While we're at it, I assume we're still happy with "subject" and 
"object" as names for the other parts of triples?

--Frank

Pat Hayes wrote:

>> Frank:
>> I called it a "predicate" because that's the term used in the M&S.  If
>> we've changed it officially, I must have missed it (where would this be
>> documented?).
> 
> 
> OK, let me make this a formal suggestion for an item.
> 
> PROPOSED that:
> The things called 'predicates' in the M&S shall henceforth be called 
> 'properties' (preferred) or 'relations'.
> This is in line with the standard usage in the description logic, 
> database and formal logic communities, and is used in the DAML+OIL 
> documentation. The term 'predicate' is deprecated as potentially 
> misleading, since properties are not predicates in the sense that word 
> is usually used in formal logic.
> 
> Pat


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