- From: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 11:24:34 -0500
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
>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 > >[...] > >> >> >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? > You could say that, indeed. Let me rephrase the remark: they do not impose any extra semantic conditions *which cannot be expressed in RDF itself* on the rest of the RDF vocabulary. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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