Re: review of July 15 draft of RDF Semantics document

From: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
Subject: Re: review of July 15 draft of RDF Semantics document
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 02:31:46 -0500

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> >>  >Silliness:
> >>  >
> >>  >rdf-interpretations do not just ``impose extra semantic conditions on crdfV
> >>  >and typed literals with the type rdf:XMLLiteral''.  Why not just say that
> >>  >rdf-interpretations impose extra semantic conditions?
> >>
> >>  Because this draws attention to the fact that they do not impose any
> >>  extra conditions on the rest of the RDF vocabulary.
> >
> >Well, sort of, but I consider the use of crdfV misleading.
> 
> Im afraid I disagree.
> 
> >It is true that there are rdf-interpretations that do not impose conditions
> >on (the denotation of) rdf:subject.  However, any rdf-interpretation that
> >includes rdf:subject in its vocabulary does impose conditions on (the
> >denotation of) rdf:subject.
> 
> Only those which arise from its being a simple 
> interpretation. The text uses the word "extra 
> semantic conditions" to indicate this distinction.

Huh?  One of the RDF axiomatic triples is
	rdf:subject rdf:type rdf:Property .
Doesn't this impose an ``extra semantic condition'' on rdf-interpretations
that is on something outside the central RDF vocabulary?
	
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peter

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