Re: Properties no longer required to be resources?

>Hi Pat,
>
>Sorry if you get this twice - having email trouble again.
>
>On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 20:18, pat hayes wrote:
>>  >I just noticed an editorial (?) tweak (pointed out by pfps) to the
>>  >semantics document that the semantic constraint that properties must be
>>  >a subset of resources has been removed from the current editors draft.
>>  >
>>  >http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/TR/WD-rdf-mt-20030117/#interp
>>  >
>>  >Pat, this is rather more than just an editorial tweak.
>>
>>  This is only for simple interpretations. It does not make any
>>  difference to RDF or RDFS interpretations, since those
>>  interpretations are still required to conform to the subset condition
>>  by virtue of their semantic conditions; cf. section 3, 5th para
>>  (after the table of RDF semantic conditions):
>
>I am greatly relieved to hear that.  I didn't read the para you quote.
>I just checked the maths of the semantic conditions and they didn't seem
>to require that properties are resources.  I then checked the (now
>complete?) closure rules in 7.2 and couldn't see how the desired
>entailment could be attained from them either.

Well, no, it can't in RDF, because "Resource" isn't in the RDF 
namespace, it is rdfs:Resource.  If it had been rdf:Resource then 
rdfs 4a/b would have been rdf 4a/b.

>
>I know better than to argue mathematics with you, but maybe you could
>point out what I'm missing?

I hope that I got that one right. If not, let me know ASAP.

Pat


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