Re: RDF* vs RDF vs named graphs

I was rasing the same point re. named graphs some time ago:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-star/2020Feb/0011.html


On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 at 23.44, Peter F. Patel-Schneider <
pfpschneider@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been thinking about the expressive power of RDF* related to the
> expressive power of RDF, at least the versions of RDF* that have been
> proposed
> so far.
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> As far as I can tell anything that can be done in RDF* can be easily done
> in
> RDF by using standard
> RDF reification techniques, perhaps slightly modified (e.g., to account for
> malformed literals), with extra properties linking to syntactic encodings
> to
> achieve referential opacity.
>
> But named graphs are more expressive than RDF* in a certain sense, as named
> graphs allow multiple "embedded" triples to be collected together.
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> peter
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