Re: Blank Nodes Re: Toward easier RDF: a proposal

On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 7:12 PM Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us> wrote:

> However, I agree with your point about bnode *identifiers*. This
> seems to me to be the really bad idea, since giving it an
> identifier is perilously close to using a name, and the
> object/metalevel confusion which it generates (and the lack of
> any scope boundaries for these 'local' identifiers) is I think
> largely responsible for the pain people are feeling. There is
> something inherently contradictory in having an identifier for
> something which, by definition, is something which does not
> identify.
>

Strongly Agree