- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:03:35 -0400
- To: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>On 2002-04-09 13:39, "ext Graham Klyne" <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com> >wrote: > >> At 10:19 AM 4/9/02 +0300, Patrick Stickler wrote: >>> I.e. given only >>> >>> Jane ex:age "25" . >>> >>> "25" alone does not denote the value twenty-five. But given >>> >>> ex:age rdfd:range xsd:integer . >>> Jane ex:age "25" . >>> >>> then "25" and the rdfd:range assertion *together* denote the >>> value twenty-five. Yet still, "25" alone does not denote the >>> value twenty-five. There is no single node in the graph which >>> denotes the value twenty-five. The value remains implicit in >>> the datatype interpretation. >> >> According to my understanding of the datatyping proposal, there is >> _nothing_ in this graph that denotes the value 25. All that is required is >> that there exists some value, not necessarily denoted by anything in the >> graph, that is related to the string "25" by the datatype >> "xsd:integer". (And according to our shared understanding of xsd:integer, >> that "some value" is 25.) Right. >I agree. I perhaps am using the word "denote" incorrectly here. > >The question is whether we need/want there always to be >"something in the graph" to denote the value 25 when, based >on our shared understanding, we know we're talking about >the value 25. I would say not. That is, there need not be anything in the graph which denotes the value, the above being an example to illustrate that conclusion. 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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