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Re: subject=predicate ?

From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 16:00:08 +0100
Message-ID: <004801c10d3e$ed753720$01da93c3@z5n9x1>
To: "Ron Daniel" <rdaniel@interwoven.com>, "Nikita Ogievetsky" <nogievet@cogx.com>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Cc: <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
> > is it valid from RDF standpoint (an why not?)
> > if subject and predicate are same?
>
> Nothing in the current M&S spec prevents this.
[...]

A subject cannot be a *predicate* as I understand it, because the
predicate is always the piggy-in-the-middle as far as the triple is
concerned, but of course an instance of *property* (i.e. rdf:type(?x,
rdf:Property)) can be. I think that Nikita was in fact asking if a
property can be used as a subject. The answer, therefore, is "yes".

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