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> whenever you point to a resource, you specify whether you are pointing to > the *resource itself* (thus "http://www.w3.org", considered as a reference > to a resource, means "the home page of the W3C"), or you are using the > resource to designate something else by convention, a so-called "subject > indicating reference" (thus "http://www.w3.org", considered as a subject > indicator, might mean "the W3C"). Exactly! This is similar to the facility in RDF. If I use as subject: http://www.w3.org qualityIs good I mean the web page But if I use something like http://www.w3.org ownerIs _:anon1 _:anon1 qualityIs good I am talking about the W3C (the plain English for this is "The owner of http://www.w3.org has good quality") This is why it is so critical that people not be encouraged to say that http://www.w3.org IS the W3C. Because first, you already have a way to indirectly identify the W3C, by saying "the owner of http://www.w3.org". And if you start saying that http://www.w3.org IS the W3C, things that are perfectly reasonable and logical before such as "the owner of http://www.w3.org" become muddled and suspicious.
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