- From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 12:24:44 -0600
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- cc: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@mediaone.net>, www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> >pat hayes wrote: > > > > > Can you (or anyone) say why the ability to quote is considered a > > > practical necessity? From where I am standing it seems an arcane and > > > exotic ability, not one that is of central practical importance. What > > > is the practical utility of being able to refer to a predicate, > > > rather than use it? Based on your follow-up to Jonathan, I think I know what you are trying to say by "quoting" above, but I'm not sure how it comes into the discussion of reification. I thought, and I'll bet most other thought, that you were talking about attribution of atomic statements rather than attribution of character strings. Do you not see the usefulness of attribution of RDF statements? Do you not see the usefulness of reification for this purpose? -- Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com +1 303 583 9900 x 101 Fourthought, Inc. http://Fourthought.com 4735 East Walnut St, Ste. C, Boulder, CO 80301-2537, USA Software-engineering, knowledge-management, XML, CORBA, Linux, Python
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