Re: TDL Model Theory

>  >               Idiom P in this MT requires the range of a
>>  property to be a literal-value pair. But that is wrong, for P. If I
>>  want to say that the range of a property is xsd:integer, I mean to
>>  say that the range is whatever xsd says integers are, ie the value,
>>  not a literal-value pair. One hundred and twenty-three is an integer;
>>  the pair <'123',123> is not an integer (according to XSD).
>
>Short version:
>
>P and S-B have rdfs:range as referring to the value space.
>S-A has rdfs:range as referring to the lexical space.
>My proposal explores the third possibility of having rdfs:range as referring
>to the map.
>
>I don't think there are any a priori reasons that rule that out. It is our
>model theory and we are free to choose what parts of the world get modelled
>where.

Oh sure, its your model theory, and there is no reason to rule it out 
a priori. I guess maybe I was reading too much into the section 
heading that referred to P, assuming that this meant to say that this 
was an accurate rendering of the old P idiom.

However, I still think that most people who write something like

foo rdfs:range xsd:integer .

would intend to be saying that the range of foo was integers as defined by xsd.

Pat

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