- From: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:42:43 -0500
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
On Thursday, July 19, 2001, at 05:51 AM, Brian McBride wrote:
>> infer from an existential the same things they could from a
>> specific identifier.
> We need to be clear which is the tail and which is the dog here.
>
> The role of the formal model is precisely define/explain the
> intended semantics of RDF. We choose the semantics - the logicians
> figure out how to express it. Not the other way round.
Fine, but I find it rather hard to say that in some cases an
anonymous node simply represent something which doesn't have an
explicit identifier, and in others represents a "template" to be
filled in. I don't see how it can really be both.
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