- From: Bom Mon <mongonviklgh@lycos.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 06:33:28 -0500
- To: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
Hi Andrea,
Andrea Proli wrote:
> Clearly, using "rdfs:Resource" allows you to model illegal statements,
> but why should this be desirable? Why should illegal statements
> exist?
Reification is used for quoting; i.e. so that if you publish the graph
x:a x:b x:c.
x:a x:d "e".
then I can take that graph and reify each statement in it to say in my
graph, "Andrea said that..."
I should be able to say this without claiming that anything of what you
said is *true*. Even if the statements in your graph are complete
nonsense, I should be able to quote them without saying they are true
(perhaps to point out that they are not true).
If you say "x:a foaf:Person x:b," then if rdf:predicate had the domain
rdfs:Property, if I quoted you I would be claiming that foaf:Person is a
property. When quoting you I would first have to check that you're not
talking nonsense, because otherwise just by quoting you *I* might be
talking nonsense.
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