- From: Ian Stuart <Ian.Stuart@ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jun 2003 11:02:41 +0100
- To: RDF Interest list <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 11:21, Roger L. Costello wrote:
> Should an ontology be concerned about the relationship of quantities?
> Or, should an ontology be concerned just about the relationship of
> entities? What's an entity?
Well, "ontology" is "concerned with the nature and relations of being",
so there is a tendency to want to relate the two items together.
However, I see a difference between <name>Ian Stuart</name>,
<aka>kiz</aka>, <nickname>kiz</nickname> all relating to the same person
(a physical object), and trying to say that an inch-measurement is the
same as a centimetre measurement.
Now, if you want to talk about, say a wheel which is 7.5 inches thick
being that same object as a wheel that is 18.38cm thick, that's fine -
the two *objects* are the same.
I just have a problem with trying to scale your 1-inch is the same as
2.45cm (do we include mm, cubits, fathoms, vara, feet [and who's "foot":
russian, english or roman?)
Just my 0.02p
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