- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:47:27 -0500
- To: fmanola@mitre.org
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>Pat-- > >I'd like you to resist (if possible) the feeling that some of these >issues people are raising (like the one about literals) are issues with >the *model theory* per se, rather than issues with *RDF* that the WG has >to wrestle with, and figure out where we stand on them. That's not to >say the model theory won't help; but if the WG is agnostic on some >issue, it's not really a problem with the *model theory* if the model >theory accurately reflects that. Yes, I understand and agree. After further thought I think the MT can stay agnostic about this particular issue without any real harm, but I will add some explanatory text (with small examples) to the document to help readers avoid the reefs. >To raise a similar issue, it's going to be difficult writing a very >convincing Primer section about reification, given our current >understanding (to use the term loosely!) of reification (at least in my >opinion). If the resulting section isn't very convincing, it won't be >an issue with the *Primer*. GIGO, as we used to say :-) Quite. Though GIGO sounds quite different when one is on the inside, right? 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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