- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 15:55:22 -0500 (EST)
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- cc: <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: > From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> > Subject: Re: LEAD: making an ontology about the ontology group... > Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 13:48:22 -0600 > > > Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: > > > > > > > and thus can't have literals as their objects. On the > > > modelling side, the relationship between social entities and mailboxes is > > > many-to-many, even when restricted to persons. > > > > > > No, there's only one person who's authorized to read > > mail sent to connolly@w3.org, and that's the case > > for many mailboxes; saying X contact:mailbox Y > > is saying that there's just one X that can receive > > mail sent to Y. > > Maybe that is true for some mailboxes, or maybe almost all, but I don't > believe that it is true for *all*. Well, or course not. One must not assert X contact:mailbox Y for just any X and Y; in making that assertion, one claims that there's only one such X. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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