Re: Equality Re: Blank Nodes Re: Toward easier RDF: a proposal

> 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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