On 5/6/15 3:21 PM, John F Sowa wrote:
> KI
>> >In Figure 23 ofhttp://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/eg2cg.pdf , shouldn't it
>> >be: [Cat: #Yojo] rather than [Cat: Yojo] in one situation and then
>> >[Entity: Yojo] in another?
> The general question of how to handle proper names in English is
> by no means trivial. But in that story (top of page 21), the first
> sentence introduces the context: "At 10:17 pm, Yojo the cat and
> a mouse were in the basement of a house." Then it's safe to treat
> the name Yojo as a constant -- at least for the duration of the story.
> Therefore, it's not necessary to mark it as an indexical.
>
> But in the book "Moby Dick", 'Yojo' is the name of Queequeg's
> ebony idol. If both the cat and the idol were mentioned in the
> same context, then you could write
>
> [Cat]->(HasName)->[Word: 'Yojo']
> [Idol]->(HasName)->[Word: 'Yojo']
>
> In English, you could say "A cat named Yojo and an idol named Yojo."
My illustration using RDF-Turtle notation:  (01)
{  (02)
<>
a foaf:Document, schema:WebPage ;
skos:related <http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/eg2cg.pdf>, 
<http://www.w3.org/2005/Talks/1110-iswc-tbl/#(7)> .  (03)
[ a owl:Thing ;
 rdfs:label "Yojo [Idefinite Pronoun]"^^xsd:string ;
 rdfs:comment """
 Is what this document is about. Yojo is identified by an
 indefinite pronoun [blank node in RDF parlance].
 """@en
] is schema:about of <> .  (04) 
<#Yojo>
a owl:Thing ;
rdfs:label "Yojo [Indexical]"^^xsd:string ;
rdfs:comment """
 Is what this document is about. Yojo is identified by
 way of the #Yojo indexical tagged onto its description 
document URI/URL.
 """@en ;
is schema:about of <> .  (05)
} [1]  (06)
[1] 
http://kingsley.idehen.net/DAV/home/kidehen/Public/Linked%20Data%20Documents/Tutorials/yojo-the-cat-identified-by-pronoun-or-indexical.ttl  (07)
-- rendition of the above via content from my public briefcase (document 
collection).  (08)
-- 
Regards,  (09)
Kingsley Idehen 
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