Re: any good hacks for these?

Bill de hÓra wrote,
> How to determine models for liquids, talc, or an Irish stew, requires
> some thought with respect to a partOf operator. That is, describing
> things which are not obviously discrete is tricky.

What's really needed is a someOf operator, but my gut feeling is that 
for the purposes of RDF the metaphysical niceites of stuffs and 
substances vs. parts and wholes probably doesn't matter all that much: 
in which case a mereotopological interpretation of partOf is probably 
good enough.

Cheers,


Miles

Received on Friday, 2 August 2002 05:06:10 UTC