Re: Untyped literals/datatyping: another test case

Brian, I agree with your analysis.

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At 09:37 AM 10/1/02 +0100, Brian McBride wrote:
>At 12:43 30/09/2002 +0100, Graham Klyne wrote:
>
>>This simple entailment test came to me while formulating some words about 
>>datatyping...
>>
>>   ex:prop rdf:range xsd:integer .
>>   ex:subj ex:prop "10" .
>>
>>entails/doesnot entail:
>>
>>   ex:subj ex:prop xsd:integer"10" .
>
>So let me check my understanding here.  With tidy semantics, this 
>entailment does not hold, because if it did, then given:
>
>   <a> <b> "10" .
>   <c> <d> "10" .
>
>we entail:
>
>   <a> <b> _:l .
>   <c> <d> _:l .
>
>If we now add to the premises
>
>   <b> rdfs:range xsd:string .
>   <d> rdfs:range xsd:decimal .
>
>then the entailment would no longer hold.
>
>That would be non-monotonic and monotonicity is a must for the model theory.
>
>Brian

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Graham Klyne
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Received on Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:07:40 UTC