- From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org>
- Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 09:20:57 -0400
- To: Bill de hÓra <dehora@eircom.net>, <www-tag@w3.org>
Bill de hÓra wrote: > > > > On Behalf Of Jonathan Borden > > > > Yes I would say that every time we use a single URI we refer > > to the same resource, but perhaps in different contexts. The > > meaning of a URI is the same as the meaning of the resource > > it refers to. > > We solve the problem of the one to many mapping between URIs and > Resource by axiomatising that such a relationship is never the case > (I'll accept that for now as being an internally consistent view in the > web, but observe it's trivially not true when we relate the world to the > web). Granted, what something means is often more relevant than what > something is. The RDF model theory correctly places strict limits as to how far it goes in determining what the meaning of a URIref is. But perhaps we can agree on a few things even if we don't solve all the problems today. The goal is to create a system that is internally consistent. With that we can _start_ to reason. Followups to www-rdf-logic Jonathan
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