Re: Sloppy inference rules

On 8 Nov 2012, at 00:22, Pat Hayes wrote:
> _:x :a ex:Fish .
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> does not entail
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> skolem:newname2346 :a ex:Fish .
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> So any rules that go from a bnode-containing triple to another triple containing the same bnode can't work by going 'through' triples in which the bnode is replaced by a skolemized URI.

But can't this trivially be solved by saying, “assume a semantics where {_:x ?p ?o} entails {skolem:x ?p ?o} for any x and vice versa”?

Best,
Richard



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