Re: Named graphs etc

>On Feb 23, 2004, at 17:32, ext Jeremy Carroll wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>I have been being beaten up further from the pragmatic wing  by Chris
>>Bizer - He is beginning to convince me ...
>>
>>
>>My understanding of his key arguments is as follows:
>>
>>- use vocab as much as possible, not syntactic mechanisms
>>     : impacts graphset tag name
>>               asserted attribute
>
>Fair enough. Though we could consider the attribute value as
>a short hand, which generates a second anonymous graph containing
>the statement about assertion of the first graph.
>
>We may, though, end up with an infinite recursion. I.e., we have
>a graph X that is asserted. In order to say that X is asserted,
>we have to have another graph X' containing a statement that
>X is asserted. But if X' is also asserted, we have to have another
>graph X'' with a statement saying that X' is asserted, etc., etc.

Lewis Carroll was there first:

http://www.lewiscarroll.org/achilles.html

>
>???


Nah, don't worry about it. Once you assert something, its asserted. 
You don't need to assert the assertion.

Pat


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