Reference by description: blank nodes

I found this in the Concepts and Abstract Syntax doc:


6.6 Blank Nodes


The blank nodes in an RDF graph are drawn from an infinite set. This set of
blank nodes, the set of all RDF URI references
<http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/#dfn-URI-reference> and the set of all
literals <http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/#dfn-literal> are pairwise
disjoint. 

Otherwise, this set of blank nodes is arbitrary. 

RDF makes no reference to any internal structure of blank nodes. Given two
blank nodes, it is possible to determine whether or not they are the same.


How is it determined whether or not two blank nodes are the same?

Al.

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