- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: 28 Jan 2002 06:42:25 -0600
- To: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, RDF core WG <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 03:11, Patrick Stickler wrote: > On 2002-01-25 19:22, "ext Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org> wrote: > [...] > > What's necessarily > > the case is that in S, "30" denotes the same thing in all > > interpretaions, but in TDL it doesn't. > > In TDL (though not perhaps the current TDL MT, which should > be revised) a literal is a literal is a literal. In the > graph, it simply is a string that, IFF paired with a datatype, > may be interpreted as a lexical form (a member of the lexical > space of that datatype). > > This is just as with S. > > However, I do disagree with the statement that "30" always > denotes the same thing in all interpretations -- as its > interpretation is context specific, either per a given > predicate or explicitly defined typing (local or global). I don't know how to have a conversation like this. I'm using the word "interpretation" in the technical sense of our model theory working draft. I can't make sense of "its interpretation is context specific". You seem to have switched to some informal use of the word "interpretation". -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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