Re: Can Resource be the top of our ontology ?

"Charles F. Munat" wrote:
> 
> So everything is a thing?
> 
> Charles F. Munat
> Seattle, Washington

Lets be careful about where and what "Thing" is, and what RDF resources
are.

Thing is the vacuous root of all concepts typically found in knowledge
representation graphs. In order to instantiate "Thing" you need some
types to construct it, like Class and Role (or Resource in this case).

In addition, it is an anachronism for implementation not
conceptualization. In conceptualization it is implicit.

-- 
Frank V. Castellucci
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Received on Sunday, 8 April 2001 18:12:58 UTC