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Re: Can there be a URI for the concepts "I", "you", "this", "it", "here", "there", "now", etc.?

From: Joshua Tauberer <jt@occams.info>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:43:51 -0500
Message-ID: <4586FD87.4060403@occams.info>
To: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>
CC: John Black <JohnBlack@kashori.com>, semantic-web@w3.org

Harry Halpin wrote:
> Since there is no notion of a variable
> in RDF as it is (although there is in N3, and one would assume, whatever
> RIF turns out to be)

A blank node is just an existentially quantified variable.

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