Re: UPDATE: initial message concerning syntax

From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
Subject: Re: UPDATE: initial message concerning syntax
Date: 14 Dec 2001 11:32:48 -0600

> On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 11:17, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> [...]
> > The Basic Problem:
> > 
> > SWOL is supposed to be an extension of RDF.  As such, the semantics of SWOL
> > should be upward compatible with the semantics of RDF.  That is, that SWOL
> > entailment reduces to RDF entailment on RDF knowledge bases.
> 
> Why do you say that?

Because that is how it should work.  Do you really want SWOL entailment to
be different from RDF entailment on RDF documents?

> I'd say SWOL entailment reduces to FOL entailment (less
> the excluded middle).

SWOL entailment does exclude the middle.

> p.s. this mailer doesn't seem to be doing The Right Thing
> with reply-to. Sorry.

You could hand-edit the headers.

> -- 
> Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
> 

peter