- From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@eircom.net>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:31:29 +0100
- To: "'WWW TAG'" <www-tag@w3.org>
Len, > -----Original Message----- > From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org] > On Behalf Of Bullard, Claude L (Len) > > This isn't an issue. It is a philosophical debate It seems to be a genuine issue for RDF. At a model-theoretic level, RDF depends on the idea that URIs are logical constants; further that they are constant over time. Having such constants bound to more than one thing, especially at the same time leads to ambiguity and very possibly bogus entailments. Fwiw, my opinion is that we won't be able to specify ambiguity away for the Semantic Web, much as we'd like to, and that this is less of an issue for the current Web machinery, but it does no harm to make people aware of the issue in the RDF context. Bill de hÓra .. Propylon www.propylon.com
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