- From: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:22:10 -0700
- To: "Pat Hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
From: "Pat Hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu> > >> Why in an RDF graph syntax? (What is so special about RDF? Its one > >> among thousands of possible notations, and its not a particularly > >> good one. The limitations of simple graphs as a notation have been > >> known for about a century, so why would we want to deliberately go > >> back to the stone age to find a basis for the world wide web?) > > > >I would like to know specifically what those limitations are ... I have not > >found any. > > No way to indicate scope or variable bindings, chiefly. Well actually there is if you will allow that a scope of a variable can be specified by a set of statements and that statements themselves have identity. 1) Establishing a set of statements http://robustai.net/mentography/contexts.gif 2) Relate the scope of a variable to that set http://robustai.net/mentography/entailsIdentity.gif Seth Russell
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