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

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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