Re: [ratholes, reification, risk] poison-URIref testcases

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Graham Klyne wrote:

> I would argue that the "meaning" of some RDF is not the "conjunction of the
> meaning of individual triples".  Conjunction of "meaning" seems to be a
> meaningless (er, ill-defined) idea.  It is the _truth_ under some
> interpretation that is a conjunction.

Unfortunately, that bit of the conversation seems to be missing from
Dan's quoted text.

Dan's concern might be summarised as: "...but what if a URI _doesn't_ I
any R?" :-)


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Received on Monday, 25 March 2002 05:06:34 UTC