Re: Named graphs etc

On Mar 10, 2004, at 12:43, ext Chris Bizer wrote:

>
>>>
>>> Maybe it is also helpful in this context to use the statement/stating
>>> terminology:
>>>
>>> 1. RDF Statements don't involve speech acts. So statements are
>>> contained in
>>> graphs that describe themselves as :G1 x:GraphQualificationProperty
>>> x:unasserted or are described somewhere else somehow as unasserted.
>>
>> Right.
>>
>>> 2. RDF Stating: Through a speech act a statement becomes a stating. 
>>> So
>>> a
>>> stating is the result of an agent claiming a Statement.
>>
>> Not sure I follow this. Can you provide an example?
>>
>
> Taking Pat's "asserting is a speech act", I tried to link the existing
> terminology "Statement/Stating" used inconsistently today to your
> x:GraphQualificationProperty. I think the term RDF Stating is used 
> mostly,
> when speaking about agents claiming stuff in an distributed, "social"
> environment. The term RDF Statement more in situations where RDF is 
> just
> used as datamodel / knowledge model without taking agents and speech 
> acts
> into account. Thinking more about it and seeing that we just discuss 
> the
> agent scenario, the idea of somehow linking it with the
> x:GraphQualificationProperty doesn't appear that convincing any more 
> ;-(
>

Hmmm....  couldn't one view the insertion of graph qualification
statements specifying assertion and authentication as being
equivalent to a "speech act", the graph being the utterance?

???

Patrick


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Patrick Stickler
Nokia, Finland
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Received on Wednesday, 10 March 2004 08:12:22 UTC