Re: [External] : Re: RDF is a framework, not a vocabulary

good afternoon;

> On 12. Jul 2024, at 10:02, Niklas Lindström <lindstream@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 3:49 PM Souripriya Das
> <souripriya.das@oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Thomas,
>> 
>>> The technical argument is: it would be non-monotonic if you could annotate a triple with the remark that it is not asserted.
>> 
>> I'd say that that "not asserted" in the "remark" is only interpreted in the context of the ___domain or application that the data creator is modelling ... it has nothing to do with RDF's notion of assertion of a triple.
> 
> I agree. Just like it is up to the application how to treat e.g. an
> assertion of `<x> :isMarriedTo <y>` in conjunction with `<x>
> :isDivorcedWith <y>`. Some things cannot be true at once, but the core
> of RDF does not come with the power to model that. That belongs to the
> level of formal reasoning upon it (and/or pattern matching techniques
> to detect it).

there is a necessary distinction between "model" and "reason about" which this claim drops on the floor.


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