On 2002-06-25 19:06, "ext R.V.Guha" <guha@guha.com> wrote:If darkness is specified by the addition of something to the graph, then there is no way to avoid non-mon. We have been over this many times now. Could we please stop reopening this issue? ... Darkness specification has to be *in the language*, not in a particular file using the language.Would you say that the approach of using reification to express unasserted triples is "in the language" and thus avoids non-monotonicity? Patrick -- Patrick Stickler Phone: +358 50 483 9453 Senior Research Scientist Fax: +358 7180 35409 Nokia Research Center Email: patrick.stickler@nokia.com