Re: How do RDF and Formal Logic fit together?

>From: "Pat Hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
>
>>  Why in an RDF graph syntax? (What is so special about RDF? Its one
>>  among thousands of possible notations, and its not a particularly
>>  good one. The limitations of simple graphs as a notation have been
>>  known for about a century, so why would we want to deliberately go
>>  back to the stone age to find a basis for the world wide web?)
>
>I would like to know specifically what those limitations are ... I have not
>found any.

No way to indicate scope or variable bindings, chiefly.

Pat

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