Re: Reification

> In my opinion, this is an extremely messy way to approach what is
> basically a simple problem.  At any point in this downward spiral we
> can jump ship and switch to a non-RDF language.  Indeed, the only
> reason to stick with an RDF language inside the quotes is to fool
> ourselves into thinking we haven't left RDF; it's RDF outside the
> quotes and RDF inside.  But the stuff inside the quotes requires all
> sorts of machinery that we didn't need outside them, so we really are
> fooling ourselves.

Pop-up an RDF node as/into an RDF graph *in place* (somewhat by-value).
Its content is not asserted, only quoted in a *non-opaque* way (as RDF).
We certainly can feed resolution-based logic/proof engines that way.

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Jos De Roo, AGFA http://www.agfa.com/w3c/jdroo/

Received on Wednesday, 4 April 2001 19:43:16 UTC