- From: William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 17:57:01 +0000
- To: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
Received on Thursday, 29 November 2018 17:57:31 UTC
> I would be wary of trying to go beyond inferring shared identity from keys > (inverse functional properties), because I think it would open up a can of > worms. I agree. But I think “equality” and “identity” are being conflated in this discussion. Identity leads to unanswerables like the Ship of Theseus. Equality (or even approximate equality where that is well-defined) is more tractable and often what we are really interested in. Best wishes, -w
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