Re: Dark triples, motivating examples

>Aaron says:
>
>Alright, but do dark triples fix reification?
>
>Seth:
>
>Didn't know that reification was broken.  I though it was resolved by the WG
>very nicely.
>
>Grahm says:
>
>[[
>I think not, because they don't of themselves provide a way to identify a
>statement.  Of course, one can use the reification vocabulary and
>assert(sic) that it's "dark", but I guess that's not what you meant by
>"fix"?
>]]
>
>Seth continues:
>
>I fail to see how the triple refered to by a reification quad is *not* dark
>in the graph which contains it.  For example:
>
>In a graph containing this reification quad:
>
>_:1 rdf:type rdf:Statement.
>_:1 rdf:subject foo:S.
>_:1 rdf:predicate foo:V.
>_:1 rdf:object foo:O.
>
>The triple:
>
>foo:S foo:V foo:O.
>
>Is *certainly* dark.

Well, its not even there, so I would say the questions of its 
darkness or lightness don't even arise.

Pat
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Received on Tuesday, 16 April 2002 18:58:59 UTC