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Add notion of transparency and rewording of asserted triple terms
Add notion of transparency in 1.5 Triple Terms and Reification
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statements to be made about other statements that may not be
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asserted within an <a>RDF graph</a>.
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This allows statements to be made about relationships that may be contradictory.
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For a <a>triple term</a> to be asserted,
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it must also appear in a graph as an <a>asserted triple</a>.</p>
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For a <a>triple term</a> to be asserted in a graph,
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it must appear as an <a>asserted triple</a> in that same graph.</p>
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<p>RDF terms that appear in a triple term have the same denotation as when they appear in an asserted triple in the graph.
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For this reason, we say that triple terms are <i>transparent</i>.</p>
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<p>A <a>triple term</a> can be used as the object of a <a>triple</a> with the predicate <code>rdf:reifies</code>;
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such a <a>triple</a> is then a <dfn>reifying triple</dfn>.

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