Re: Media types for the Semantic Web from Bijan Parsia on 2004-03-31 (public-sw-meaning@w3.org from March 2004)

From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:37:34 -0500
To: public-sw-meaning@w3.org
Message-Id: <630682EE-836C-11D8-AEC8-0003939E0B44@isr.umd.edu>

On Mar 31, 2004, at 2:11 PM, Michael Brian Orr wrote:
[snip]
> (a) Is the implicit position of the anti-media-type principals in this
> thread that reification is a sufficient answer to this type of 
> question?

Since I explicitly slammed reification, then I think it's safe to say, 
No, it isn't.

>  Or that this is not a single question with a single
> answer? Or that there is no issue at all?

Clearly not the last.

Propositoinal attitudes are hard, especially when you aren't just 
modeling them.

> (b) More generally, what views are people willing to express about how
> the pragmatics of non-factual statements may develop over time?

I don't understand this at all.

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.

Received on Wednesday, 31 March 2004 18:38:33 UTC