Re: Toward easier RDF: a proposal

On 11/21/2018 5:40 PM, David Booth wrote:
> 7. Literals as subjects.  RDF should allow "anyone to say
> anything about anything", but RDF does not currently allow
> literals as subjects!  (One work-around is to use -- you guessed
> it -- a blank node, which in turn is asserted to be owl:sameAs
> the literal.)

You wouldn't actually need owl:sameAs, I think, but your would still 
need an n-ary relationship in which the focal (blank) node had the 
literal as a "value" or "literal" predicate, and other relationships tht 
said whatever was to be asserted about that literal.

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