- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:34:23 -0400
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- CC: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
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 -- Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road, MS A345 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 mailto:fmanola@mitre.org voice: 781-271-8147 FAX: 781-271-875
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