Re: RDF lists

At 08:58 AM 9/20/02 -0500, pat hayes wrote:
>>Looks fine to me.
>>
>>You say...
>>
>>At 05:39 PM 9/19/02 -0500, pat hayes wrote:
>>>We note in passing that this semantics requires that the universe IR is 
>>>closed under the operation of constructing lists.
>>
>>... which seems entirely reasonable, but I couldn't be sure formally why 
>>this is required.  Is it that ICEXT(x) is always a subset of IR, hence 
>>ICEXT(I(rdf:List))?
>
>Right. But also we want to be sure that all the lists we can possibly 
>mention also exist, because otherwise a graph describing a list might be 
>false because the interpretation just doesn't happen to have a suitable 
>list handy.

Aha, of course!  Thanks.

#g


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Graham Klyne
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Received on Friday, 20 September 2002 11:36:54 UTC