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Re: [ontac-forum] Re: owl:Class and owl:Thing

From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 03:54:26 +0200
Message-ID: <1f2ed5cd0604061854x56558a32u16f79b6f1b2558c3@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Paul S Prueitt" <psp@ontologystream.com>
Cc: "ONTAC-WG General Discussion" <ontac-forum@colab.cim3.net>, "Hans Teijgeler" <hans.teijgeler@quicknet.nl>, semantic-web@w3.org, "John F. Sowa" <sowa@bestweb.net>, seanb@cs.man.ac.uk, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, "Frank Manola" <fmanola@acm.org>

On 4/7/06, Paul S Prueitt <psp@ontologystream.com> wrote:

danny -
> "The domain-independence of languages like RDF/OWL could be applied to
> many realities, without any need to commit to any particular model.
> Isn't that an advantage?"

paul -
> are you not aware that a central point of contention is about anyone's blank
> assertion that RDF/OWL is domain independant.

No, I'm not aware of any such. But I've been around forums like this
long enough to realise that you're not going to achieve a radical
shift of viewpoint without demonstrable results from the alternate
approach. Running code is mightier than the word. Please excuse me
while I get on with it.

Cheers,
Danny.

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