Re: scope of _:existentials in N3Logic?

It took us 10 years to realize that the scope of blank nodes is the graph 
in which they occur :-)
The answer we get from euler is the same as you got from cwm:

eye --nope varscope1.n3 --pass
#Processed by $Id: euler.yap 3310 2010-02-24 21:31:52Z josd $

@prefix : <evarscope1#>.
@prefix var: <http://localhost/var#>.
@prefix e: <http://eulersharp.sourceforge.net/2003/03swap/log-rules#>.
@prefix r: <http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/reason#>.
@prefix n3: <http://www.w3.org/2004/06/rei#>.

:bob :likes _:somebody_1.
:fred :likes _:somebody_1.
:alice :likes :trina.
:trina :likes _:sk0.


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Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> 
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scope of _:existentials in N3Logic?







I'm re-implementing N3Logic in scala... in particular, parsing
N3 syntax into Coherent formulas. I'm trying to figure
out how existential variables work in N3, and I'm surprised about
something.

Consider:

  There's somebody that Bob likes and Fred likes.
  And everybody that Alice likes also likes this somebody.
  Also, Alice likes Trina.

  Does Trina like this somebody?

Of course Trina does, but when I try to write the problem
down in N3, cwm doesn't handle it as I'd expect. cwm concludes
that Trina likes something, but not that Trina likes
the same somebody that Bob and Fred like.

$ cat ...varscope1.n3
@prefix : <evarscope1#>.
@keywords is, of, a.

bob likes _:somebody.
fred likes _:somebody.
{ alice likes ?X } => { ?X likes _:somebody }.
alice likes trina.

$ cwm.py ...varscope1.n3 --think
#Processed by Id: cwm.py,v 1.197 2007/12/13 15:38:39 syosi Exp 
        #    using base
file:///home/connolly/projects/rdfsem/src/test/resources/varscope1.n3
 
#  Notation3 generation by
#       notation3.py,v 1.200 2007/12/11 21:18:08 syosi Exp

#   Base was:
file:///home/connolly/projects/rdfsem/src/test/resources/varscope1.n3
     @prefix : <evarscope1#> .
    @prefix va: <#> .
 
     @forAll va:X.
         @forSome va:_g0 .
 
    :alice     :likes :trina .
 
    :bob     :likes va:_g0 .
 
    :fred     :likes va:_g0 .
 
    :trina     :likes  [
         ] .
    {
        :alice     :likes va:X .
 
        }     <http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/log#implies>
{va:X     :likes  [
             ] .
        } .
 
#ENDS

The surprise is bad news, but the good news is that cwm's
way of reading this formula does fit inside coherent logic,
which makes my coding goal straightforward...

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