Re: Reification quoting in RDF/N3 was: A note comparing Conceptual Graphs and RDF/Semantic Web

----- Original Message -----
From: "McBride, Brian" <[email protected]>
To: "Tim Berners-Lee" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 6:55 AM
Subject: RE: Reification quoting in RDF/N3 was: A note comparing Conceptual
Graphs and RDF/Semantic Web


> [snip]
>
> > However, in the RDF syntax there is a known problem there.
> > You can't quote
> > something without asserting it.
>
> I'm not sure I understand the problem.  Simplifying your
> example for clarity:
>
>   
>     
>       
>       
>       
>       
>     
>   
>
> as I understand things, the above quotes
> (wants to marry, mary, Fred) without asserting it, if
> I understand correctly what you mean by 'quotes'.
>
> Please could you give a concrete example of the bug you
> had in mind?

Oh, I agree that it is fine if you express the reified form.
What you can't do is:


   
      
  
  
      


without asserting #a.   The unreified form is of course much more paletable.
A simple extension to fix this would be:


   
      
         
      
  
  
      


TimBL


> Brian McBride
> HPLabs
>

Received on Friday, 19 January 2001 16:04:29 UTC