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Re: [ontolog-forum] The Open world assumption shoe does not always fit

From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:07:56 -0700
Message-Id: <p06230910c494251db46e@[192.168.1.5]>
To: "[ontolog-forum] " <ontolog-forum@ontolog.cim3.net>
Cc: "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@ontolog.cim3.net>, semanticweb@yahoogroups.com, welty@us.ibm.com, public-semweb-lifesci hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, semantic_web@googlegroups.com, "John F. Sowa" <sowa@bestweb.net>

At 1:55 PM -0400 7/4/08, John F. Sowa wrote:
>Folks,
>
>The issue of nonmonotonic reasoning is important for many practical
>applications, and I'd like mention a version that I recommended in my
>knowledge representation book.  The method is based on "prioritized
>defaults," as developed by Benjamin Grosof:

...

As this thread was originally about NAF, how would one use this 
method to do NAF-style reasoning? It appears to be about default 
reasoning, which is not exactly the same (though both are, indeed, 
non-monotonic.)

Pat
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