- From: Mikael Nilsson <mikael@nilsson.name>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:06:29 +0100
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@miscoranda.com>, www-tag@w3.org
On tis, 2007-12-18 at 01:58 -0800, Pat Hayes wrote: > There is no such thing, I suggest, as > a webarch:representation of an RDF graph, just as > there is no such thing as one of the number zero > or the fourth moon of Jupiter. If I can't faithfully represent the number 0 using a message, I don't know of anything I can faithfully represent. /Mikael > > Pat > > > > >/Mikael > > > > > > > > > >> Compare sending a numeral in some text, using some > >> numerical convention, vs. sending an actual number. Maybe if > >> 'lossless' is the sole criterion, then numbers are IRs also, since > >> the literal "123"^^xsd:number seems to be an encoding of the number > >> one hundred and twenty three with perfect fidelity. But I'm betting > >> that this isn't what was originally intended by the IR idea. > >> > >> Pat > >> > >> > >-- > ><mikael@nilsson.name> > > > >Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose > > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home > 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office > Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax > FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell > phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes > > > -- <mikael@nilsson.name> Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
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