- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:13:33 -0500
- To: "Seth Russell" <seth@robustai.net>
- 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. OK, no way to indicate a set of statements. Same thing. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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