Re: Comments on informal meaning of the RDFS vocabulary

[sorry to reply again...]

> For example,
>
>          ex:Cretan rdf:subClassOf ex:Person .
>          ex:Cretan rdfs:comment "All Cretans are liars" .
>
> would mean that the model theoretic consequences of
>
>          ex:John rdf:type ex:Cretan .
>
> would include that John is a liar.

Not when you write that as ex:John rdf:type ex:Liar.
"All Cretans are liars" is just a plain literal

           A plain literal is either
           * a Unicode string in Normal Form C
           * a pair of such a string and a language tag

and is opaque to any likely RDF inference engine
but *can* be carried by formal entailments


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Jos De Roo, AGFA http://www.agfa.com/w3c/jdroo/

Received on Wednesday, 29 January 2003 15:40:11 UTC