Re: summary of reification?

>At 12:25 06/02/2002 -0600, Pat Hayes wrote:
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>>Or, better, why not just trash it, since apparently nobody uses it anyway.
>
>We decided at last week's telecon to move forward with clarifying 
>what it means.  We've had some excellent discussion this week, with 
>the issues becoming clearer - thanks Pat for your excellent 
>questions earlier.
>
>To my simple mind it boils down to a choice.  Does a reified 
>statement represent a statement or a stating (an occurrence of a 
>statement in a graph).
>
>The formal model part of M&S is clear that its a statement.
>However, the intended application was provenance, for which a 
>stating is required.  The original WG were not aware, and did not 
>consider the difference.  We have a simple choice:
>
>   o change the formal definition to suit the intended
>     application of the original WG
>
>   o stick to the formal model and let someone invent a
>     new vocabulary for stating.
>
>Please lets stay out of the rat holes, choose and move on.

OK. But let me ask: suppose there were two groups, and one said it 
was a statement and the other said it was a stating. Are there any 
entailment tests (or some other kind of behavioral test??) where they 
would disagree about what the right answer was?

Pat

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