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title: "Building the Semantic Web Tower from RDF Straw"
authors:
  - "Peter F. Patel-Schneider"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2005/5"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2005/0005.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2005
pages: "546-550"
track: ""
keywords:
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# Building the Semantic Web Tower from RDF Straw

Peter F. Patel-Schneider

*Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 546-550.

## Abstract

A same-syntax extension of RDF to first-order logic results in a collapse of the model theory due to logical paradoxes resulting from diagonalization. RDF is thus the wrong material for building the Semantic Web tower.