- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:22:15 -0500
- To: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>At 06:44 PM 10/25/01 -0500, Pat Hayes wrote: >>>1. abstract thing: "statement"; concrete thing: "triple" >>>2. abstract thing: "triple"; concrete thing: "triple token" >>>(discourage use of "statement") >>>3. something else? >> >>Of these, I like 1. better and I bet it will produce more readable >>prose, but we will have to take some care to explain the >>distinction and not just assume that the reader knows what we mean. >>We can always toss in the 'token' for emphasis at critical points. > >Just to make sure I'm still "on message" (as political spin doctors >are required to be): > >- A statement is an abstract thing that has the value true or false >in any interpretation. > >- A triple is a kind of token for the statement, consisting of a >subject URIref, a property URIref and an object URIref or literal. > >- An arc in a tidy graph (identified by its endpoint nodes and arc >label URI) is another kind of token for a statement. That is my understanding, yes, though I would be happy to be slightly vague about whether the graph terminology refers to abstract things or concrete things most of the time. 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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