RE: Blank nodes must DIE! [ was Re: Blank nodes semantics - existential variables?] from William Waites on 2020-07-08 (semantic-web@w3.org from July 2020)

From: William Waites <wwaites@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 08:01:56 +0100
To: "Cox\, Simon \(L&W\, Clayton\)" <Simon.Cox@csiro.au>, Patrick J Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Anthony Moretti <anthony.moretti@gmail.com>
Cc: thomas lörtsch <tl@rat.io>, Dieter Fensel <dieter.fensel@sti2.at>, Hugh Glaser <hugh@glasers.org>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, MindLab <mindlab@lists.sti2.at>
Message-ID: <m2h7ui8p7f.fsf@spacecadet.groovy.net>

> I must be missing something in this conversation. Why not use the
> literal?

Perhaps it is that in some cultures it is rude to be too direct and
referring indirectly to people and things is considered more polite?


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