Re: Spec doesn't talk about two-valued relationships

At 08:28 PM 3/10/01 -0600, Aaron Swartz wrote:
>Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org> wrote:
>
> >> Because a generic system doesn't know whether 0 means false, or an 
> address,
> >> or whatever.
> >
> > It may be that we come at this with different worldviews/assumptions about
> > how systems might work, but it seems to me that that kind of "knowledge"
> > would be embedded in inference rules; e.g.
> >
> > <http://www.aaronsw.com/> bob:chocolateLover "0" .
> > bob:SweetBrownStuff rdf:type bob:Chocolate.
> > ->
> > <http://www.aaronsw.com/> bob:doesNotEat bob:SweetBrownStuff
>
>The question is what rules/terms are needed to be able to do this in the
>general case. That is, I'd like my system not to have to have specific
>knowledge about chocolateLover, Chocolate, and doesNotEat.

Sooner or later, methinks, it is needed that statements are grounded in 
"real-world" knowledge.  How do you suggest that such grounding may be 
introduced into a system?

(I propose it is through axiomatic facts and inference rules.)

#g


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Graham Klyne
(GK@ACM.ORG)

Received on Sunday, 11 March 2001 04:44:48 UTC