Re: Equality of RDF bags

On Oct 28, 2011, at 9:42 AM, Dieter Fensel wrote:
> At 11:19 AM 10/28/2011, Antoine Zimmermann wrote:
>> Graph 2a and Graph 2b are not equivalent either in terms of formal semantics,
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> Is it then fair to say that the formal RDF semantics is "broken" not reflecting the intuitive semantics of RDF?
No, but it is fair to say that RDF is a descriptive/logical language rather than a specification/programming language. And of course this is what it was designed to be, and this is exactly what the RDF semantics specifies it to be. I suspect that the "intuitive" semantics you are referring to is in fact a mistaken intuition, gotten by thinking of RDF as something like a programming language. Wrong way to think.
Pat 
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