Re: ACTION 2001-08-24#9 : issues with containers

>At 12:12 PM 8/30/01 -0700, pat hayes wrote:
>>I understand that, but that still leaves open the issue that I was 
>>raising, which is: given that it doesn't have the properties 
>>contiguous, what does that entail? Are the 'missing' elements 
>>really there (but not mentioned), or are they genuinely not there? 
>>So in my example, if
>>xxx rdf:_1 aaa
>>xxx rdf:_3 ccc
>>does xxx have two, or at least three, members?
>
>Can the formalism be agnostic about this?

Yes, it could. I asked the question in case people wanted to have the 
question answered one way or the other.

>i.e. that the member corresponding to rdf:_2 may or may not exist, 
>and if it does exist its value is not stated by the above.  In the 
>absence of an rdf:lastThing or equivalent, the same being true for 
>any value of rdf:_n not explicitly stated.

Right.

Pat

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