- From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@main.uusia.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:56:37 +0600
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
- Message-ID: <87ei694p4q.fsf@violet.siamics.net>
I guess I'm close to become an annoyance, but I'm going to ask yet another blank node question anyway. Suppose that I have the following graph: :joe :has [ a :dog ] And suppose that I also have the following one as well: :joe :has [ a :dog ] From the previous discussion I've learned that there're different opinions on whether to consider these graphs, which share exactly the same representation, same or different. In particular, there's a position that these graphs are different, unless they're named the same. (Somehow, I feel that graph naming should be considered tangential to the knowledge it represents, but I've noted to myself that there's a different opinion.) But my question is itself tangential to the equivalence of these graphs. Instead, I wonder, if I've assimilated this above representation into an RDF store, and going to assimilate its exact twin again, does this later assimilation change the /knowledge/ contained within such a store, or not? To speak it differently, I've never heard of Joe, and (unexpectedly) received a bit of information that speaks: Joe has a dog. Now, I receive another bit, that says exactly the same. I'm quite certain that after I've received the first bit I now have a bit more knowledge about the World. However, I'm not so sure that the second bit gives me any more knowledge, since I still have no rational means to tell, whether the dog I'm told of this time is the same or different to the one about which I've already known. TIA. -- FSF associate member #7257
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