Re: RDF Semantics: a partial review

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>  >True. I think that the best way to handle this is to just remove the
>>word 'finite' from the statement of the lemmas, and add a remark in
>>the appendix pointing out that if E is finite then the intermediate
>>derived graph can also be taken to be finite. This restores the
>>statements of the lemmas to their previous form without cluttering up
>>the proofs. I will make this change.
>
>The word finite has not been removed from the statement of the
>rdfs entailment lemma in the appendix.

That is strange. It was removed in 2.4 but seems to have been edited 
back in 2.5. Clearly my fault: will fix.

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>  >>In view of this, it seems better to assume that each
>>>rdf(s)-interpretation satisfies all of rdfV (and
>>>therefore satisfies all RDF axiomatic triples).
>>
>>Yes, of course (now you have pointed it out :-). I will make this
>>change. Peter has previously expressed a dislike for the 'crdV'
>>construction, which was introduced only to keep the closures finite
>>in any case and is therefore now irrelevant.
>
>It seems that this is change is not consistently applied to the
>document.
>The definition of rdfs interpretation includes "which contain only
>names form V union rdfV union rdfsV".
>This phrase should be removed, and similarly for rdf interpretations.

It seems harmless, since this is the vocabulary of the 
interpretation. But it may indeed be misleading, so I have deleted it 
as you request.

Thanks for the careful reading.

Pat

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