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Re: substantive semantics change?

From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:05:33 +0100
To: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Message-Id: <200311111405.33534.jjc@hpl.hp.com> 

[[
Even the empty graph has a large number of rdfs-entailments which
are not rdf-entailments, for example all triples of the form

xxx rdf:type rdfs:Resource .

are true in all rdfs-interpretations of any vocabulary containing xxx.
]]

> *empty*
>   entails
> rdf:_1 rdf:type rdfs:Resource

For the entailment to hold, all interpretations of empty must make the 
consequences true.

There are (or at least were) interpretations of empty which do not include 
rdf:_1 in their vocabulary. For such interpretations the consequences are 
false and the entailment does not (or at least did not) hold.

Jeremy
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