ISSUE-149: LC comment: Intuitive summary needs to be scoped to interpretations

LC comment: Intuitive summary needs to be scoped to interpretations

State:

CLOSED

Product:

RDF Semantics

Raised by:

Guus Schreiber

Opened on:

2013-10-02

Description:

Comment by David Booth:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-comments/2013Oct/0010.html

https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-mt/index.html

Section 5.2 Intuitive summary needs to be scoped to a particular
interpretation or set of interpretations. At present the
interpretations are implicit, and this is misleading because it suggests
that the notion of a graph being true is somehow independent of an
interpretation, whereas in fact the truth of a graph critically depends
on the interpretations that are chosen.

I suggest rewording the first sentence of this section from: "An RDF
graph is true exactly when: . . . " to: "An RDF graph is true exactly
when there exists an interpretation such
that: . . . "

Also, the verb "interpret" is being used in this clause: "2. there is
some way to interpret all the blank nodes in the graph as referring to
things,", but that causes confusion with the notion of an interpretation
(which is a function). It would be better to use a different verb at
this point.

Also point 4 mentions "these interpretations", but it isn't clear what
interpretations are meant. Perhaps it means the results of the verb
"interpret" in item 2? In which case, a different word should be used
here also.

Thanks,
David

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1. [RESOLVED] Re: RDF Semantics - Intuitive summary needs to be scoped to interpretations (ISSUE-149) (from david@dbooth.org on 2013-10-15)
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