- From: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:38:57 -0700
- To: "Uche Ogbuji" <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>, "pat hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
From: "pat hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
> First, note that quoting provides a character string, and reification
> in general provides at most a description of syntactic form, so such
> 'attribution' examples need to be taken with a pinch of salt. There
> is a world of difference between "X says 'statement Y'" and "X says
> that Y". Notice in the second case that the Y is NOT quoted; it is
> being used (to refer to its content), not mentioned. Reification does
> not provide access to content, only form.
Apparently you are not using the word 'reification' in the same sense that
it is applied to the example below in the RDF specification; see [1].
Ralph Swick says that Ora Lassila is the creator
of the resource http://www.w3.org/Home/Lassila.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/#higherorder
Seth Russell
Received on Tuesday, 15 May 2001 16:43:51 UTC