Re: Are duplicate property/value pairs permitted for a resource?

Samuel Yang wrote:

> (To those interested in following this thread, I will post my future
> responses only to the 'www-rdf-comments@w3.org' mailing list.)

I have cut back accordingly.
 
> John,
> 
> I disagree.  RDF is a way to specify just "facts".  If "app2" wants to state
> that it believes that (#A, #B, "2") is true, it needs to state that as a
> reified Statement, as specified in section 4 of the RDF Model & Syntax Spec.

[example snipped]

Quite so; that is how an agent registers its *belief* that S,
where S is some sentence.  The problem is what happens when
two different agents have contradictory *facts*.   One of them
is wrong, obviously, but there is no definition about what RDF
does in such circumstances.

This is why I say that the semantics of deletion matters.
What does it mean to remove a statement from the database
of RDF facts?  There is no notion in RDF of *authoritative*
claims, and probably there should be.

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