- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 22:25:29 -0700
- To: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Guys, I think this discussion is getting confused. Look, there is a basic assumption about RDF expressions: they are USED to REFER TO things. So when you write something of the form AAA rdf:type BBB . you are saying that the thing that 'AAA' refers to is in the class that 'BBB' refers to. You are *not* saying that AAA itself is in that class. This means that there really isn't much use for a class of literals, ie a class whose members are literals themselves. There is no way that you could possibly say (in RDF) that anything was in it. The only way make sense of AAA rdf:type rdfs:Literal . is that it says that AAA (not 'AAA') is in the class of literal *values*, not the class of literals. Notice by way of comparison that one uses a uriref, not a resource, to say that a resource is in rdfs:Resource. We don't call the universe rdfs:ResourceReference. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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