- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:36:44 -0500
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- CC: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
pat hayes wrote: > > >Brian McBride wrote: > > > > > > pat hayes wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Wait a minute. The subject is a URI, not a Resource, right? The > > > > Resource is what the subject (a piece of syntax) denotes, not the > > > > subject itself. > > > >That's what you'd think, coming from a logic background, but > >as Brian points out, RDF says the subject of > > Mary hit the ball. > > > >is a female person, not a word starting with 'M'. > > > >This is mother of all use/mention bugs, IMO. > > > >cf > > Indeed. If we have to take this seriously then I withdraw the model > theory, since it can't possibly work. You mean the reification part of the model theory, right? The rest is fine. > Such a beastie, consisting of > triples of real things, isn't even a language, so it can't have a > semantics. (It also cannot have a grammar, by the way, since BNF only > refers to strings of symbols, and my mother isn't a symbol.) -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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