Why Can’t We Add Claims to Lists yet?
When creating lists on Intuition, you quickly run into a limitation:
you can only add Atoms, not claims (Triples).
But why?
Right now, lists are just collections of claims:
- Tatooine → is in → Star Wars Planets
Which means every list entry looks like:
[Atom] → [has tag] → [List Atom]
But what if you want to list something like:
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“Privacy is more important than safety”
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“Expelliarmus is better than Avada Kedavra”
These aren’t Atoms. They’re claims.
And there’s no way to add them.
The reason seems structural:
Triples aren’t treated as first-class entities.
You can’t do:
[Claim] → belongs to → [List]
because claims can’t act as subjects.
And this is essentially the idea of nested triples:
being able to take a statement like
(A → relation → B)
and use it as part of another statement.
Right now, that layer doesn’t exist.
But this raises a bigger question:
should it?
Because without nested triples, lists can only group things, not ideas.
No:
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lists of opinions
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lists of arguments
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lists of beliefs
So the limitation isn’t just about lists.
It’s that statements themselves aren’t referenceable.
And until they are, an entire layer of knowledge stays unstructured.
What happens when we want to organize not just what exists,
but what is being claimed?
That’s where things get interesting.
