- From: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 07:45:02 -0800
- To: "Huajun Zeng \(Intl Staffing\)" <i-hjzeng@microsoft.com>, <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
From: "Huajun Zeng (Intl Staffing)" <i-hjzeng@microsoft.com> > I am entangled when I try to use DAML to describe such a sentence: > "Tom likes fish". The following statement seems to work, > > <p:person rdf:ID="Tom"> > <p:like rdf:resource="f:fish" /> > </p:person> > > but I found it only represents "Tom likes an intance of fish", not the > class of fishes. Futhermore, if another people, Jack, also likes fish > and is described as above, we cannot say Tom and Jack are similar. > Because they like their own fishes individually! > > It seems that if the class "fish" is also an instance, the problem is > resolved. But as I know, the occuring of type and subClassOf in > a same statement has no semantics. Your term 'like' has no semantics either. I think you need to use a schema where you can do quantification. See for example: http://robustai.net/mentography/quantificationFish.gif Seth Russell
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