1 May 2007 06:29
Re: Define more than Subject-Predicate-Object
Timothy Redmond <tredmond <at> stanford.edu>
2007-05-01 04:29:32 GMT
2007-05-01 04:29:32 GMT
>> However I would argue that this is not an entirely natural >> viewpoint. Say we look at a statement like >> >> MyFavoritePizza = Pizza and (hasTopping some SausageTopping) and >> (hasBase all ThinAndCrispyBase). >> >> It is possible to express the semantics of such a statement in terms >> of triples. But I would argue that the more natural semantics is the >> direct model theoretic semantics (http://www.w3.org/TR/owl- >> semantics/ >> direct.html). > But I still don't understand what do you mean with the direct model > theoretic semantics. > I've not read about it, but I'll do later. Say I have a statement that says CheeseyPizza = Pizza and (hasTopping some CheeseTopping). The simplest way to explain its meaning is to build up the meaning piece by piece. So we define the meaning of the above statement in the following steps: (hasTopping some CheeseTopping) is the set of all things that has some topping CheeseTopping Pizza and (hasTopping some CheeseTopping) is the set of all things that are in Pizza and are also in (hasTopping some CheeseTopping)(Continue reading)
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